FYI: license-check -reconsile ...

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Osamu Aoki (2015-11-02 13:49:37)
> If there is a binary file license check tool, that can be used by 
> debmake too.  At least, if there is a way to call its binary file 
> scanner from other tool, it will be nice.  I have not looked at 
> licensecheck in detail, but "embedded ICC profiles" is one concern 
> which licensecheck like program should find out.

Right.  For those unaware, challenge with ICC profile is that they need 
multi-layered extraction: First extract ICC binary data from JPEG or 
other image format, and then extract metadata fields from the ICC data.

Best I have found is Image::ExifTool in package libimage-exiftool-perl. 
It's a perl library but includes commandline interface "exiftool".

Other binary file types I use explicit extraction tools for in some of 
the packages I maintain (including ghostscript if you wanna check the 
actual code) are fonts (only Truetype, Trutype collections and 
Truetrype-flavored OpenType so far).  For those I use the perl libraries 
Font::TTF::Font and Font::TTF::Ttc which include no generic commandline 
tool.  You might get reasonable metadata from lcdf-typetools instead, 
but beware of its current RC bug.


 - Jonas

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