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REUSE recommendations, tutorials, FAQ and specification
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COPYING and LICENSE are ignored by the tool; this is not mentioned in the spec #139

Closed carmenbianca closed 3 months ago

carmenbianca commented 7 months ago

Raised in https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/issues/881#issuecomment-1862780188

carmenbianca commented 7 months ago

133 might fix this

silverhook commented 7 months ago

Should the tool or the spec be the original source of truth?

TBH, I’d prefer the spec to be clean and the tool to adapt. With reuse.toml it should be trivial to ignore the COPYING and LICENSE files if they exist.

The reason why LICENSES/ is ignored in the spec is because it is part of the spec. Ignoring files and folders that are not part of the spec is tricky, because their naming and actual use is outside of our control. (e.g. there’s LICENSE, LICENCE, COPYRIGHT, COPYING, LICENSE.GPL, etc. etc.)

carmenbianca commented 3 months ago

Implemented in spec