chore: establish REUSE/SPDX licensing baseline#12589
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Make the current licensing explicit and machine-verifiable ahead of the planned Apache-2.0 relicensing. This changes no license: application code stays GPL-2.0-or-later, library components stay LGPL-2.1-or-later, and bundled third-party keeps its upstream license. - Add LICENSES/ with the SPDX text of every license in the tree. - Add an SPDX-License-Identifier header to every GPL/LGPL source file (copyright lines were already machine-detectable). - Add REUSE.toml covering assets, generated/config files, and third-party material that cannot carry a header, recording each file's license and copyright. - Add a REUSE compliance CI check (.github/workflows/reuse-lint.yml). - Ignore local tooling artifacts (.superpowers/, signing key). `reuse lint` reports the project compliant with REUSE Specification 3.3. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Müller <1005065+DeepDiver1975@users.noreply.github.com>
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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Müller <1005065+DeepDiver1975@users.noreply.github.com>
spacesbrowser.cpp began with a UTF-8 BOM. The REUSE baseline commit prepended the SPDX-License-Identifier line, pushing the BOM to line 2 where clang rejects it (error: unexpected character <U+FEFF>), breaking the build on all platforms. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Müller <1005065+DeepDiver1975@users.noreply.github.com>
Rewrite the scattered per-author copyright notices in every ownCloud-authored source file into a single canonical corporate copyright chain, in preparation for the Apache-2.0 relicensing (the CLA assigned copyright to ownCloud): SPDX-FileCopyrightText: <START>-2016 ownCloud Inc. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016-2022 ownCloud GmbH SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 ownCloud GmbH - A Kiteworks Company SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 ownCloud GmbH - A Kiteworks Company and ownCloud contributors The start year of the first line is dynamic: 2012 by default, or one year after a preserved upstream copyright ends. Genuine third-party upstream copyright is preserved and the chain appended below it: - Liferay, Inc. (2000-2013) in the Windows shell-integration overlays - Andreas Schneider (2008-2013), the upstream libcsync author, in src/csync Individual-contributor notices (including dated ones) are normalized away; vendored library descriptions (libcsync, c_time) are kept. The tree remains REUSE 3.3 compliant (reuse lint: 1291/1291 tracked files). Signed-off-by: Thomas Müller <1005065+DeepDiver1975@users.noreply.github.com>
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Summary
Establishes a REUSE/SPDX licensing baseline for the
repository. This makes the current licensing explicit and machine-verifiable
ahead of the planned Apache-2.0 relicensing — it is a prerequisite that changes
no license:
What's included
LICENSES/— the SPDX text of every license present in the tree(GPL-2.0-or-later, LGPL-2.1-or-later, MIT, BSD-3-Clause, BSL-1.0, CC-BY-4.0,
Apache-2.0, plus
LicenseRef-texts for the Qt LGPL exception and apublic-domain file).
SPDX-License-Identifierheaders added to every GPL/LGPL source file(following the existing precedent, e.g.
src/libsync/config/openidconfig.h).Copyright lines were already machine-detectable, so the change is a single
added comment line per file.
REUSE.tomlcovering assets, generated/config files, and third-partymaterial that cannot carry a header — recording each file's license and
copyright. Third-party is attributed correctly (QProgressIndicator = MIT,
Font Awesome = CC-BY-4.0, Remix Icon = Apache-2.0, vendored CMake modules =
BSD-3-Clause / BSL-1.0,
c_jhash= public domain, Windows VFS = the 2025GPL relicensing).
.github/workflows/reuse-lint.ymlrunsreuse linton PRs socompliance stays enforced.
.superpowers/, signing key).Verification
Notes
This is Phase 1 of the relicensing effort and is safe to merge on its own.
The actual GPL/LGPL → Apache-2.0 flip, dropping the CLA, and moving to DCO are
separate follow-ups gated on legal confirmation that the contributor agreement
permits relicensing.
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