Generate nice licensing page

[niccokunzmann]

For another project, I was using flutter and it has this nice license overview:

I was wondering it there is a way to easily generate a licensing page from the reuse annotations of my repository. Is there a tool that can do that?

When I see this: https://reuse.readthedocs.io/en/stable/readme.html#license Then, I wonder if you would like use a tool like that yourself.

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Which API can I use to get all the licensing information e.g. in a JSON format? Answered:

reuse lint --json

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I think, I would like something like this:

reuse lint --html

That outputs an HTML page.

[carmenbianca]

I'm not sure we should output HTML—everyone will want something different. However, a decently formatted plain-text output wouldn't be a bad idea. We could call this reuse credits, which will reproduce:

• All (unique) copyright notices. Maybe with year merging, which will be easier if we implement #947 first.
• All licence texts.

This generated text might come in handy for certain compliance processes.

I'm not sure if the copyright notices should be categorised by licence, or if that would even make sense. Furthermore, reproducing all licence texts may not make sense for projects that 'collapse' to a single licence (usually GPLv2 or GPLv3).

This will need some brainstorming before implementation.

Thanks @niccokunzmann for opening the issue.