Administrator authored Sep 24, 2021 and Florian Uhlig committed Sep 26, 2021

Add the external directories to the list of directories which shouln't be
tested.
Only test a file that exists. This solves a problem when files are removed
from the repository.

Exclude code from directory analysis/PWGDIL/dielectron/papaframework.
The code of the papa framework currently has its own license header since the
code was original developed for the ALICE collaboration before the original
author copied the code also to CbmRoot.

Administrator authored Sep 15, 2021 and Florian Uhlig committed Sep 16, 2021

Add / as allowed character in the regex which checks the copyright statement.
This is needed since we have cases with two institutes and two cities in the
copyright statement which are separated by a /.

Corrects a variable typo which leads to some false positives

Allows passthrough of all files before trigger error code, to allow to see all files which don't obey header format.

Allows checking of individual files.

Eoin Clerkin authored Sep 02, 2021 and Florian Uhlig committed Sep 13, 2021

Ensures that modified .cpp, .C and .h files follow basic licence header guidelines.

Check line 1 for a copyright declaration with correct numerial and character placements for a date followed by institute and city.
Check line 2 for SPDX licence identifier.
Check line 3 for author and committer information.