Re: Adding license text to files

On Wednesday 10 August 2011, Jason Aubrey wrote:
> I'd like to use keyword substitution or something like it to
> automatically append/update license information in a large collection
> of files. In other words, I'd like the licensing information to be a
> property of the file, but also appear as text in the file. I can do
> the former with properties, but can't see how to do the latter in some
> automatic easy way. (Also, ideally, the license text in the file would
> come from the property on the file. )

You discovered yourself that you can set arbitrary properties on a file and
others already mentioned that you can't use this to expand keywords. What you
can do though is to create a script that checks the license property and
substitutes a placeholder in the file or prepends a header. What this doesn't
achieve is that anybody checking out will see the license. That said, even SVN
keyword substitution is performed on client-side, so it can be circumvented.

There is another thing that comes to mind. You could include a text stanza
like "see 'license.text' for licensing details" to the file and then use
svn:external to reference the file from somewhere else. That would allow
changing the license without having to touch hundreds of files.

Cheers!

Uli

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