Add workflow to check that files have copyright & license statements #867
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This workflow uses
addlicense
to check that files added in a PR contain the standard copyright and license statements. The workflow can be used as a required CI check.The
addlicense
program doesn't provide an easy way to tell it which files to ignore. A feature of this workflow is that it overcomes this limitation by reading file paths to ignore from the file.github/workflows/config/license-checker-ignore.txt
. This makes it easy to update the list of files to be ignored without having to edit the workflow itself.