REUSE compliance#

BIOMASS BPS follows the FSFE REUSE standard for license compliance. This standard is automatically verified by fsfe/reuse-action in the CI pipeline (job: baseline-reuse): it is a blocking gate — a PR with non-compliant files will be rejected.

For SPDX header format, see Contributions.

LICENSES/ directory#

The LICENSES/ directory at the root of the repository must contain the full text of every license used in the project. This is required by the REUSE standard.

Currently required files:

  • LICENSES/Apache-2.0.txt: primary license of the project

  • LICENSES/MIT.txt: license of certain dependencies or contributions

If you add a dependency with a new compatible license, add its full text to this directory and use the correct SPDX identifier in the file headers.

What the REUSE standard requires#

  1. SPDX headers in every source file (see Contributions)

  2. LICENSES/ directory at the root of the project containing the full license texts

  3. Valid SPDX identifiers in headers (Apache-2.0, MIT, etc.)

Local verification#

# Via pre-commit (reuse hook)
pre-commit run reuse

# Or directly
pip install reuse
reuse lint

CI context#

REUSE verification runs as part of the baseline CI tier. See CI automation and contribution tiers for how baseline checks gate pull requests.

Resources#

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