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reuse is a tool for compliance with the REUSE recommendations.

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`reuse download` looses license formatting #923

Closed BigBlueHat closed 8 months ago

BigBlueHat commented 8 months ago

I used reuse download to populate these files: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/bedrock/blob/main/LICENSES/

which resulted in a weird version of the license without the typical whitespace--for example: https://github.com/digitalbazaar/bedrock/blob/main/LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt

I then found that the licenses here don't have that issue: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/blob/main/LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt

I'm not sure what's causing this difference...but I certainly hope the loss of whitespace is a bug...

mxmehl commented 8 months ago

No, it's not a bug per se, although it's not the state we'd wish to have. Everything should have been discussed in #438, also the reason why REUSE is not the place to tackle this.