Announcing Snaplint

[Spencer]

Uh...but if I use your tool, then I can't claim ignorance when I'm getting sued for copyright violations.

Seriously, though, I hate all the legal crap licensing causes in the development world.  Your tool could make life a lot easier in that regard, which is nice.

BTW, the GPL is the worst license ever.  Your lint tool should flag its use as a fatal error.

> On Dec 8, 2016, at 2:44 PM, Scott Sweeny <scott.sweeny at canonical.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm writing to announce a tool I've been working on to encode best
> practices for snapping software. Inspired by utilities like lintian I've
> decided to name it 'snaplint'. At this point I'd like some wider
> feedback as I try to make it more useful.
> 
> Right now you can run snaplint against your snapcraft project directory
> and it will scan the prime subdirectory for the following things:
> 
> * copyright (basically that you included usr/share/doc/*copyright* for
> any stage-packages
> * developer cruft (things like header and object files or static libs
> that might have made their way into your snap)
> * libraries (examine the ELF files in your snap and look for libraries
> which aren't used)
> 
> The next things I'm planning on adding are:
> * checking for copyright info from apps/parts themselves.
> * checking for mixing of incompatible licenses
> 
> I would love to hear suggestions from you on further improvements.
> 
> You can find the source at https://github.com/ssweeny/snaplint
> 
> And, of course you can try it on your own machine with
> 
>    $ snap install snaplint
>    $ snaplint <path/to/your/project>
> 
> Cheers,
> ~Scott
> 
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