Florian Snow
Florian Snow
To me this is also a question of whether REUSE is meant to be a tool to mainly get Free Software licensing right or a tool to get any kind...
I'm not sure if globbing for that purpose is a good idea anyway. A file could reasonably have that name and not be related.
@aspiers Do you have time to answer Max's question and provide a test?
So how should we proceed with this? I think it's nice to heave, but probably not a deal breaker for most use cases. There are still a few open questions...
@carmenbianca What's your concern if we were to do this now?
@amerlyq Does support for snippets solve this? To me, it sounds like it might because if a patch has licensing information inside, then every change could simply be a snipped...
Closing this as it is now a documentation issue: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-docs/issues/70
@carmenbianca How about using the `.gitmodules` file? That's what came to mind, but you have a better overview, so I want to check with you first.
Agreed. From what I understand, we could ask Git for a list of submodules (that was my first approach too), but it may not be accurate if the submodules are...
Just documenting this here as well. I think having a precedence implies there is some sort of legal precedence as well. This is a problem if a repo supplies licensing...