Hi Lassi, Lassi Kortela <xxxxxx@lassi.io> writes: >> I think I prefer the SPDX comments inside the .gitgnore file though, >> even if just for uniformity with the rest. > > I've expressed my opinion. The rest of you can vote on it. > >>> Comments in .html files should probably go below the <html> tag. See >>> e.g.https://stackoverflow.com/questions/941100/can-comments-appear-before-the-doctype-declaration > > Does the reuse tool place HTML comments before the <html> tag? That > should probably be fixed in the tool. It should, if you are confident this is a problem. >>> for more natural looking notices. E.g. >>> >>> # Copyright 2015 Arthur A. Gleckler<xxxxxx@speechcode.com> >>> # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT > >> I left the reuse tool take care of producing these (using something like >> "reuse annotate -lMIT -y2015 -c'Arthur A. Gleckler<xxxxxx@speechcode.com>' .gitignore") >> When there are multiple copyright holders, they are grouped together >> as >> in: >> # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Some One <email1> >> # SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Another One <email2> >> # >> # SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT >> I don't feel strongly about it; I prefer to stick to what the tool >> produces as it makes my life easier. > > This works: reuse annotate example.scm --copyright "Some One" > --license MIT --copyright-style string --merge-copyrights I meant to say I find the output agreeable; having the copyright holders bloc separated from the license identifier by a blank line makes both easy to visually differentiate. > It produces: > > ; Copyright 2023 Some One > ; > ; SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT > > It uses ";" instead of the more sensible ";;" or ";;;". That's a problem known upstream [0] for which I've sent a PR in [1]. [0] https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/issues/637 [1] https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/pull/874 > To get rid of the blank line, it seems we would have to use a custom > template that has to be copied into each SRFI's repo. Unwieldy. My opinion is that it's not worth the hassle. It's a minor cosmetic detail. -- Thanks, Maxim
