REUSE(1)

NAME
reuse - A tool for compliance with the REUSE recommendations

SYNOPSIS

reuse [options] <command>

DESCRIPTION

reuse is a helper tool for the REUSE initiative. Its main functionality in reuse-lint(1) is to verify whether a project is compliant with the REUSE Specification. It also contains an array of convenience functions to enable developers to become compliant.

For more information on how to use reuse beyond a reference of the command-line options, see the accompanying documentation or read it at https://reuse.readthedocs.io. For further information about REUSE, see https://reuse.software.

DETAILS

When searching for copyright and licensing tags inside of files, the tool does not strictly limit itself to the header comment as prescribed by the specification. It searches the first 4 kibibytes of the file for REUSE information, whether in comments or not. This makes sure that the tool can parse any type of plain-text file, even if the comment style is not recognised.

If a file is found to have an unparsable tag, that file is not parsed at all. This is a bug (https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/issues/4).

The tool does not verify the correctness of copyright notices. If it finds any line containing '©', 'Copyright', or 'SPDX-FileCopyrightText:', then the tag and everything following it is considered a valid copyright notice, even if the copyright notice is not compliant with the specification.

Symbolic links and files that are zero-sized are automatically ignored.

OPTIONS

--debug
    Enable debug logging.

--suppress-deprecation
    Hide deprecation warnings.

--include-submodules
    Do not ignore Git submodules; they are treated as though they are part of the project. This is not strictly compliant with the specification.

--include-meson-subprojects
    Do not ignore Meson subprojects (i.e. the subprojects directory in the root of the project); they are treated as though they are part of the project. This is not strictly compliant with the specification.

--no-multiprocessing
    Disable multiprocessing performance enhancer. This may be useful when debugging.

--root PATH
    Set the root of the project to PATH. Normally this defaults to the root of the current working directory's VCS repository, or to the current working directory.

-h, --help
    Display help and exit. If no command is provided, this option is implied.

--version
    Display the version and exit.

COMMANDS

reuse-annotate(1)
    Add REUSE information to files.

reuse-convert-dep5(1)
    Convert .reuse/dep5 to REUSE.toml.

reuse-download(1)
    Download license files.

reuse-lint(1)
    Verify whether a project is compliant with the REUSE Specification.

reuse-spdx(1)
    Generate SPDX bill of materials.

reuse-supported-licenses(1)
    Print a list of supported licenses.

AUTHOR
Free Software Foundation Europe

COPYRIGHT
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