Copyright checker

.github/workflows/global.yaml

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+name: global
+on:
+  pull_request:
+
+jobs:
+  copyright:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout devtools
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Check copyright notice
+        run: |
+          pip install \
+            pre-commit \
+            python-magic==0.4.18 \
+            comment-parser>=1.2.3
+          pre-commit run --all-files

.pre-commit-config.yaml

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+repos:
+- repo: local
+  hooks:
+    - id: check-copyright-notice
+      name: check-copyright-notice
+      description: Check copyright notice
+      entry: python3 scripts/check_copyright_notice.py
+      language: system
+      types_or: [go]

scripts/check_copyright_notice.py

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+# -------------------------------------------------------
+# Copyright (c) 2023 Arm Limited. All rights reserved.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+# -------------------------------------------------------
+
+"""
+Checks the presence of copyright notice in the files
+"""
+
+from typing import Optional, Sequence
+import argparse
+import os
+import sys
+import re
+import magic
+from comment_parser import comment_parser
+
+COPYRIGHT_TEXT = "Copyright (c) <ValidYear>"
+LICENSE_TEXT = "SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0"
+
+def check_file(filename: str, copyright_reg_exp: re.Pattern) -> int:
+    """
+    Checks a file for the presence of a comment in the form of a copyright
+    and license notice.
+    @param filename: The name of the file to check.
+    @param copyright_reg_exp  A regular expression giving the format of the
+    copyright notice (exclusing language-specific comment chars).
+    @return 0 If the copyright & license notice are found, otherwise 1.
+    """
+    if os.path.getsize(filename) == 0:
+        return 0
+
+    mime_type = magic.from_file(filename, mime=True)
+    if mime_type == "text/plain":
+        mime_type = "text/x-c++"
+
+    copyrightfound=False
+    licensefound=False
+    comments = ""
+    for comment in comment_parser.extract_comments(filename,
+                                                   mime=mime_type):
+        comments += comment.text() + '\n'
+
+    if copyright_reg_exp.search(comments):
+        copyrightfound=True
+    if comments.find(LICENSE_TEXT) != -1:
+        licensefound=True
+
+    if copyrightfound and licensefound:
+        return 0
+
+    errstr = ""
+    if not copyrightfound:
+        errstr = "\n\t # Missing or invalid copyright text. Please follow format: " + COPYRIGHT_TEXT
+    if not licensefound:
+        errstr += "\n\t # Missing or invalid license text. Please write : " + LICENSE_TEXT
+
+    print(f"# Copyright check error(s) in : {filename} {errstr}")
+    return 1
+
+def main(argv: Optional[Sequence[str]] = None) -> int:
+    """
+    Entry point that checks for copyright notices being present in all the
+    files supplied on the command-line.
+    @param argv: The names of the files to check.
+    @return Non-zero if one or more of the passed files was missing a copyright
+    notice.
+    """
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument('filenames', nargs='*')
+    args = parser.parse_args(argv)
+
+    print("Checking copyright headers...")
+    ret = 0
+    copyright_reg_exp=re.compile(r"(Copyright\s\(c\)\s(19|20)[0-9][0-9][^0-9])")
+    for filename in args.filenames:
+        ret |= check_file(filename, copyright_reg_exp)
+
+    if ret != 0:
+        print(">> error: Files are missing a valid copyright header")
+
+    return ret
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())