docs: add per-file SPDX licensing metadata - #17
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Preserve Argonne's attribution on the makeBaseApp-derived IOC mains while identifying the reccaster source files as licensed under EPICS.
Use REUSE's scoped file validator to ensure EPICS source, build, database, and startup files retain copyright and license identifiers without imposing metadata requirements on unrelated repository files. Keep the applied EPICS text in REUSE's required license inventory while retaining the top-level LICENSE expected in EPICS distributions.
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FYI @anjohnson |
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I don't think you need to keep the This looks fine to me either way. |
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REUSE does allow that, but the current EPICS licensing guidance explicitly says to put the licence text in the top-level directory, so I want to honour that here. |
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Follow-up to the review discussion on #14.
This adds SPDX copyright and licence identifiers to the project's EPICS source artifacts: C/C++ sources, Make and configure files, database definitions, and the IOC startup script.
Files derived from makeBaseApp retain their upstream Argonne attribution and year. Project-specific work uses the reccaster holder wording from #14.
A scoped
reuse-lint-filehook checks the same files through the existing pre-commit workflow. This deliberately does not claim full REUSE compliance or require metadata on documentation, workflows,.gitignore, or other repository-administration files.REUSE requires the EPICS licence text under
LICENSES/EPICS.txt. The top-levelLICENSEremains because that is the layout expected for EPICS distributions; the two files are identical.This PR is stacked on #14 because its project attribution depends on the holder wording being settled there.