Draft: Start adding SPDX-License-Identifier comments

[gotmax23]

Automated with:

mkdir LICENSES
ln -sr COPYING LICENSES/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
git mv PSF-license.txt LICENSES/PSF-2.0.txt
reuse addheader -l PSF-2.0 plugins/module_utils/_version.py
rg -l 'GNU General Public License v3.0+' | parallel reuse addheader -l GPL-3.0-or-later

Signed-off-by: Maxwell G [email protected]

SUMMARY

This is a WIP PR to show what adopting REUSE would look like. I know that this still needs a changelog fragment. I will add that once we decide on this. I have included how I've automated this so folks can see what the process looks like.

ISSUE TYPE

• Feature Pull Request

COMPONENT NAME

Licensing

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

This is currently being discussed in ansible-community/community-topics#112.

[gotmax23]

Current output of reuse lint: https://gist.github.com/gotmax23/b82d00caf4602d95fd0e379a1c1ac47c

I only added license comments for plugins/module_utils/_version.py and the files containing GNU General Public License v3.0+, so there are a lot of files missing license information. I can add bulk add GPL-3.0-or-later license headers to other files that don't currently have licensing information if you confirm that there's no other secondary licenses I missed. For the copyright part, there's some files that actually do have copyrights that aren't recognized by reuse, as it's picky about what formats it'll accept.

[felixfontein]

This comment should be directly after the current GPL line (now line 7, used to be line 5).

[felixfontein]

I created #430 with https://gist.github.com/felixfontein/3d9502e22d1461dc3baadddeeb9d9cd9 and some manual work.

[gotmax23]

Closing in favor of #430

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