HawkEye: A Simple license header checker and formatter in Rust

by tison on 1/28/2025, 1:04:05 PM with 9 comments

  • by ognarb on 1/28/2025, 6:02:31 PM

    Use the Reuse specification and tooling instead: https://reuse.software/

    There is no need to reinvent a solved problem by rewritting it in rust with a different format, particularly considering that reuse was developed by the FSFE in collaboration with some lawyers.

  • by JTyQZSnP3cQGa8B on 1/28/2025, 5:34:54 PM

    Is there a point to this if license headers are (supposedly) useless?

  • by pianoben on 1/28/2025, 9:30:35 PM

    Neat! I've always wanted a tool like this, but never wanted to build one.

    The most "good enough" solution for validating license headers I've ever used is just to grep for the copyright line: https://github.com/microsoft/thrifty/blob/master/script/ensu...

    This sounds much better.

  • by steveklabnik on 1/28/2025, 7:12:52 PM

    Oh neat! I use https://github.com/apache/skywalking-eyes extensively for this, but am not particularly in love with it.