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Adding headers
- Styles
Generic commands
Development version
License identifiers I commonly use

reuse is a tool for compliance with the REUSE recommendations.

says their GitHub description and in practice this means having a license header in all files or alternatively a file.license file. The tool can generate these, but I never remember the commands.

For more detailed explanation, consult reuse.software/tutorial

Adding headers

Copy-paste and add file name(s) to the end

# Autodetect how to add comment?
reuse annotate --copyright="Aminda Suomalainen <{{ page.email }}>" --license="CC0-1.0"
# Create a file.license
reuse annotate --copyright="Aminda Suomalainen <{{ page.email }}>" --license="CC0-1.0" --force-dot-license
# The usual # marks a comment
reuse annotate --copyright="Aminda Suomalainen <{{ page.email }}>" --license="CC0-1.0" --style python

Note!

--year 2023 can be specified if the date isn’t this year.
annotate replaces existing headeer if any, to add before it instead, use --no-replace

Styles

c means // marks a comment
python means # marks a comment
html and css explain themselves
tex means % marks a comment
vim means " marks a comment
etc. when style is empty, supported ones are displayed, but I am unsure whether I need more and trying what reuse says works too.

Generic commands

reuse download --all - downloads all licenses found to LICENSES/
reuse lint - verifies compliancy
reuse supported-licenses | less - lists supported licenses identifiers
reuse convert-dep5 to fix deprecation warning about .reuse/dep5/reuse.toml

Development version

pipx install "git+https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool.git"

License identifiers I commonly use

CC0-1.0
CC-BY-4.0
CC-BY-ND-4.0
CC-BY-SA-4.0
BSD-3-Clause
EUPL-1.2

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