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remove-gpl

Command-line tool that strips the GPL preamble from source codes files (eg when providing a commercial release).

Command-line

usage: com.github.fracpete.removegpl.Main
       [-h] --dir <dir> [--recursive] [--no-default-patterns]
       [--verbose] [--dry-run] [<file> [<file> ...]]

positional arguments:
  <file>                 The pattern files to apply  (eg when not using the
                         built-in ones or additional ones).

named arguments:
  -h, --help             show this help message and exit
  --dir <dir>            The input directory with the source code files.
  --recursive            Whether to process files recursively.
  --no-default-patterns  Whether  to  disable  the   use   of  the  default
                         patterns.
  --verbose              Whether to process files in verbose mode.
  --dry-run              Files don't get updated when modified.

Default pattern files

The following pattern files are built in:

Pattern file format

Here is the format of the pattern files (Java properties format):

# Template file for patterns

# the regular expression that the files must match in order to get processed
filepattern=.*\.txt

# the number of find/replace patterns (indexing starts at 1)
numpatterns=1

# the 1st find pattern
find1=.*This program is.*

# the 1st replace pattern
replace1=

Maven

Add the following artifact to your dependencies of your pom.xml:

    <dependency>
      <groupId>com.github.fracpete</groupId>
      <artifactId>remove-gpl</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.3</version>
    </dependency>

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