Bear Proposal copyright violation check bear

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Opened by @jayvdb at Gitter

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[ishanSrt]

How should one proceed with this?

[Makman2]

@ishanSrt There are some copyright checking tools out there. Actually I think we even have specific issues for them, could you look around in the issue-tracker here?

[Mohit17067]

I would like to work on this. How should I proceed?

[Makman2]

Find a copyright check tool and lookup in our docs how to write bears.

[Mohit17067]

@Makman2 Got a doubt, Shouldn't all the bears already made will have to add a copyright notice to them.

[Mohit17067]

Could you please explain the issue a bit more that when will the bear check for copyright and what's the exact meaning of bear 'proposal' here?

[Makman2]

You have to write a new bear that implements different settings for performing copyright checks. For example the bear can enforce that every file needs a comment with license, or that there has to be just one file in the whole repo.

Shouldn't all the bears already made will have to add a copyright notice to them.

No, one copyright notice for a repo is enough. This is not about enforcing copyright standards in this repo, but to write a bear that is able to do it.

[Mohit17067]

There is a license_check_files folder for testing licenseCheckBear. So can I use those same files to test this bear as it will be useless to make separate similar files? @Makman2

[Makman2]

Rather copy them, then changes in one or another location won't affect each other's tests.

[yash-nisar]

@jayvdb Do we have to add a new bear or improve the existing LicenseCheckBear and add the copyright checking functionality as you've mentioned here ?

[jayvdb]

this isnt licensing checking. this is copying detection. (ala turnitin)

for our documentation, we should never have text which copies prior text

[jayvdb]

The copyright license header bear proposal is #823

[jayvdb]

And #2442 is for a new native license header bear.