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More lenience for COPYING and LICENSE-like files
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Signed-off-by: Carmen Bianca BAKKER <[email protected]>
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carmenbianca committed Jul 8, 2024
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### Changed

- Also allow `COPYING` and `LICENSE` files to have a suffix with a dash (e.g.
`LICENSE-MIT`).
- The `LICENSE` file may also be spelt `LICENCE`.

### Deprecated

### Removed
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12 changes: 7 additions & 5 deletions site/content/en/spec-3.3.md
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Expand Up @@ -69,7 +69,9 @@ Covered Files are any file which must contain Licensing Information. This is
equal to all files in a project, with the exception of:

- The License Files stored in the `LICENSES/` directory.
- `COPYING` and `LICENSE`, with or without file extensions.
- `COPYING`, `LICENSE`, and `LICENCE`, with or without file extensions. These
MAY also contain a dash separator, like `LICENSE-MIT`. These files SHOULD be
in the root of the Project.
- The files belonging to the Project's version control system (example:
`.git/`).
- The files ignored by the version control system (example: files listed in
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Information associated with any Covered File, there MUST exist a License File as
defined in this section.

You MAY include a `COPYING` or `LICENSE` file (with or without file extensions)
in your project for compliance with other standards, conventions, or tools.
These files MAY contain a copy of the license text, a summary of your licensing,
or anything else. These files are ignored by the REUSE Tool.
You MAY include `COPYING` or `LICENSE` files in your project for compliance with
other standards, conventions, or tools. These files MAY contain a copy of the
license text, a summary of your licensing, or anything else. These files are
ignored by the REUSE Tool.

## Licensing Information

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