best way to add license section to iOS settings bu

Question

My iOS application uses a number of third party components licensed under Apache 2.0 and similar licenses, which requires me to include various bits of text, this kind of thing:

* Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
  notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
  documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

There seems to be a reasonable precedent for putting this information under a 'License' subentry in settings bundle (on the ipad facebook, pages, keynote, numbers and wikipanion all seem to do this).

I'm struggling a bit to actually achieve the same though; I seem to need to split the text up line by line and enter into xcode a line at a time (and xcode4 seems to have a crashing problem when editing the plists).

It seems like the kind of thing that there's almost certainly a somewhere script to do, or some simple way to do it that I've missed.

Answer 1

Here's the same solution that @JosephH provided (without translations), but done in Python for anyone who prefers python over perl

import os
import sys
import plistlib
from copy import deepcopy

os.chdir(sys.path[0])

plist = {'PreferenceSpecifiers': [], 'StringsTable': 'Acknowledgements'}
base_group = {'Type': 'PSGroupSpecifier', 'FooterText': '', 'Title': ''}

for filename in os.listdir("."):
    if filename.endswith(".license"):
        current_file = open(filename, 'r')
        group = deepcopy(base_group)
        title = filename.split(".license")[0]
        group['Title'] = title
        group['FooterText'] = current_file.read()
        plist['PreferenceSpecifiers'].append(group)

plistlib.writePlist(
    plist,
    "../Settings.bundle/Acknowledgements.plist"
)