reuse

Tool for compliance with the REUSE recommendations. More information: https://reuse.readthedocs.io/en/stable/man/index.html.

• Lint for REUSE compliance for the current project (version control aware):

reuse lint

• Lint for REUSE compliance from the specified directory:

reuse --root {{path/to/directory}} lint

• Add copyright statement to file:

reuse annotate {{[-c|--copyright]}} "{{your_name}} <{{your_email}}>" --fallback-dot-license {{path/to/file}}

• Add licence information to file:

reuse annotate {{[-l|--license]}} {{spdx_identifier}} --fallback-dot-license {{path/to/file}}

• Download a license by its SPDX identifier and place it in the LICENSES directory:

reuse download {{spdx-identifier}}

• Download all missing licenses detected in the project:

reuse download --all