--- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/getcopyright.py Sun Jul 17 03:06:02 2011 +0100
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+# A script to fetch copyright files from debian server.
+# Author : N.B.Prashanth
+
+import sys
+import urllib
+
+def process(prog):
+
+ if(prog[0]=='l'):
+ s=prog[:4]
+ url = "http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/"+s+"/"+prog+"/current/copyright"
+ res = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
+ if(res[0:50]=='<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">'):
+ s='l'
+ url = "http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/"+s+"/"+prog+"/current/copyright"
+ res = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
+ print res
+ else:
+ print res
+
+ else:
+ s=prog[0]
+ url = "http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/"+s+"/"+prog+"/current/copyright"
+ res = urllib.urlopen(url).read()
+ if(res[0:50]=='<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">'):
+ sys.stderr.write('Error : Failed to fetch file.\n')
+ else:
+ print res
+
+
+def main():
+ if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+ print "Get Copyrights from Debian"
+ print "Usage: %s <Program>" % sys.argv[0]
+ sys.exit(-1)
+
+ for prog in sys.argv[1:]:
+ process(prog)
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+ main()