Header validator for your Python files

This action checks the copyright and license notices in the headers of your Python files.

Inputs

owner

Required The copyright owner.

starting-year

Required The starting year of your project.

license

Identifier of the license for your project (cf. SPDX identifiers). Default null.

folders

The folders to inspect, separated by a comma. Default ".".

ignore-files

The files to ignore, separated by a comma. Default "__init__.py".

ignore-folders

The folders to ignore, separated by a comma. Default ".github/".

license-notice

The path to a license notice text. If license is null, the header will be expected to have this text as a license notice. Default null.

Outputs

The list of files with header issues and the suggested format (cf. example below):

Your header should look like:

# Copyright (C) <FILE_CREATION_YEAR>, Pyronear.

# This program is licensed under the Apache License 2.0.

Example usages

Using an Open-source license:

uses: frgfm/validate-python-headers@main
with:
  license: 'Apache-2.0'
  owner: 'François-Guillaume Fernandez'
  starting-year: 2022
  ignore-files: 'version.py,__init__.py'
  ignore-folders: '.github/'

On closed source code:

uses: frgfm/validate-python-headers@main
with:
  license-notice: '.github/license-notice.txt'
  owner: 'François-Guillaume Fernandez'
  starting-year: 2022
  ignore-files: 'version.py,__init__.py'
  ignore-folders: '.github/'

Contributing

Any sort of contribution is greatly appreciated!

You can find a short guide in CONTRIBUTING to help grow this project!

License

Distributed under the Apache 2.0 License. See LICENSE for more information.