Audit and normalize SPDX license headers before releasing or open-sourcing a repository
Use REUSE when an agent needs file-level licensing clarity instead of guessing from a single top-level LICENSE file. The agent checks compliance, adds or verifies SPDX headers, pulls missing license texts into LICENSES/, and produces a concrete remediation list or SPDX export.
What it does
Audit and normalize SPDX license headers before releasing or open-sourcing a repository
Use REUSE when an agent needs file-level licensing clarity instead of guessing from a single top-level LICENSE file. The agent checks compliance, adds or verifies SPDX headers, pulls missing license texts into LICENSES/, and produces a concrete remediation list or SPDX export.
Prerequisites
Python 3.10+, optional libmagic, optional VCS tools
Installation
Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
- pipx :
- pipx run reuse lint
- pipx automatically isolates reuse into its own Python virtualenv, which means
- pipx install reuse
Requirements and caveats from upstream:
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Basic usage or getting-started notes:
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Lint 3rd party repositories / third-party-lint (https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-example) (push) Successful in 31s
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