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    • Generating Copyright Headers from git History

    By Pid Eins February 20, 2009 · Edited March 5, 2026
    Here's a little a little tool I wrote (http://0pointer.de/public/copyright.py) that automatically generates copyright headers for source files in a git repository based on the git history. Run it

    Here’s a little a little tool I wrote (http://0pointer.de/public/copyright.py) that automatically generates copyright headers for source files in a git repository based on the git history.

    Run it like this:

    ~/projects/pulseaudio$ copyright.py src/pulsecore/sink.c src/pulsecore/core-util.c

    And it will give you this:

    File: src/pulsecore/sink.c Copyright 2004, 2006-2009 Lennart Poettering Copyright 2006-2007 Pierre Ossman Copyright 2008-2009 Marc-Andre Lureau File: src/pulsecore/core-util.c Copyright 2004, 2006-2009 Lennart Poettering Copyright 2006-2007 Pierre Ossman Copyright 2008 Stelian Ionescu Copyright 2009 Jared D. McNeill Copyright 2009 Marc-Andre Lureau

    This little script could use love from a friendly soul to make it crawl entire source trees and patch in appropriate copyright headers. Anyone up for it?

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