Check Copyrights in All Text Files

This is a GitHub Action that checks the presence of copyright notices in all text files in the repository. Use it like this:

name: copyrights
on:
  push:
  pull_request:
jobs:
  copyrights:
    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
    steps:
      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
      - uses: yegor256/copyrights-action@0.0.4

It will find the copyright punch line in the LICENSE.txt and then will try to find its presence in all source code files. If at least one of them doesn't have the punch line, the plugin will raise an error. A more fine-grained configuration is also possible:

- uses: yegor256/copyrights-action@0.0.4
  with:
    license: LICENSE.txt
    globs: >-
      **/*.java
      **/*.py
      Makefile
      **/*.xml
    exclude: >-
      target/**
      node_modules/**/*.js

However, it is advised to stay with the defaults.

How to Contribute

In order to test this action, just run:

make test

This should build a new Docker image and then try to use it in order to render a simple test.tex document. You need to have Docker installed.