Burocrata: Check and insert copyright and license notices into source code

Part of the Fatiando a Terra project.

About

Burocrata is a small command-line program that can check the existence of copyright and license notices in source code files and add them when they are missing.

Installing

Burocrata is available from PyPI:

python -m pip install burocrata

and conda-forge:

conda install burocrata -c conda-forge

Using

Check that very .py file in a directory has a license notice:

$ burocrata --check --extension=py source_folder

Removing the --check option will make Burocrata add the license notice to the files that don't have them:

$ burocrata --extension=py source_folder

The license and copyright notice can be configured in a pyproject.toml file located in the directory where burocrata is run:

$ cat pyproject.toml
[tool.burocrata]
notice = '''
# Copyright (c) YYYY Name of Developer.
# Distributed under the terms of the BSD 3-Clause License.
# SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-3-Clause'''

See a full list of options:

$ burocrata --help

Dependencies

We use the following dependencies (see pyproject.toml for specific version constraints):

• click for building the command-line interface.
• tomli to parse the TOML configuration files.
• pathspec to parse .gitignore files.

Contacting Us

Find out more about how to reach us at fatiando.org/contact

Contributing

Code of conduct

Please note that this project is released with a Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.

Contributing Guidelines

Please read our Contributing Guide to see how you can help and give feedback.

License

Burocrata is free and open-source software distributed under the MIT License.