Koko in KDEReview

Adriaan de Groot groot at kde.org
Tue Mar 16 21:05:50 GMT 2021


On Tuesday, 16 March 2021 20:10:46 CET Carl Schwan wrote:
> > > -   on the topic of licensing: since the code base is really close to
> > > complete reuse coverage it might be nice to push it over the finishing
> > > line and then `reuse lint` it to not have it fall behind again
> 
> This will be a bit tricky since the remaining files were not written by any
> current contributors. I could try to contact the old contributors.

You don't need to contact them, you need to know what the license on the file 
is, and who contributed to it. Presumably you know the license (that was made 
clear to all contributors early in the lifetime of the project, I should hope) 
and git log will tell you who that was. Then you need one line

SPDX-License-Identifier:

for the file, and per contributor

SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Person Name <person.email at example.com>

(On that last one, some folk insist on "(C)" or "Copyright" after the :, and 
perhaps a year as well; the jury is still out on that).

[ade]
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