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---
- title: "Audit and normalize SPDX license headers before releasing or open-sourcing a repository"
+ name: "Audit and normalize SPDX license headers before releasing or open-sourcing a repository"
+ slug: "audit-and-normalize-spdx-license-headers-before-releasing-or-open-sourcing-a-repository"
description: "Use REUSE when an agent needs file-level licensing clarity instead of guessing from a single top-level LICENSE file. The agent checks compliance, adds or verifies SPDX headers, pulls missing license texts into LICENSES/, and produces a concrete remediation list or SPDX export."
verification: "security_reviewed"
source: "https://codeberg.org/fsfe/reuse-tool"
author: "Free Software Foundation Europe e.V."
publisher_type: "organization"
- category:
- - "Security & Verification"
- framework:
- - "Multi-Framework"
+ category: "Security & Verification"
+ framework: "Multi-Framework"
---
# Audit and normalize SPDX license headers before releasing or open-sourcing a repository
Use REUSE when an agent needs file-level licensing clarity instead of guessing from a single top-level LICENSE file. The agent checks compliance, adds or verifies SPDX headers, pulls missing license texts into LICENSES/, and produces a concrete remediation list or SPDX export.
## Prerequisites
Python 3.10+, optional libmagic, optional VCS tools
## Installation
- Choose whichever fits your setup:
+ Use the upstream install or setup path that matches your environment:
+ - pipx :
+ - pipx run reuse lint
+ - pipx automatically isolates reuse into its own Python virtualenv, which means
+ - pipx install reuse
- 1. Copy this skill folder into your local skills directory.
- 2. Clone the repo and symlink or copy the skill into your agent workspace.
- 3. Add the repo as a git submodule if you manage shared skills centrally.
- 4. Install it through your internal provisioning or packaging workflow.
- 5. Download the folder directly from GitHub and place it in your skills collection.
+ Requirements and caveats from upstream:
+ - This website requires JavaScript.
+ - python
+ - Python
- Install command or upstream instructions:
+ Basic usage or getting-started notes:
+ - Lint 3rd party repositories / third-party-lint (https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-example) (push) Successful in 31s
+ - Maintainers
+ - Contributing
- ```
- pipx install reuse, apt install reuse, or dnf install reuse
- ```
+ - Source: https://codeberg.org/fsfe/reuse-tool
## Documentation
- https://reuse.readthedocs.io/en/stable/
## Source
- [Agent Skill Exchange](https://agentskillexchange.com/skills/audit-and-normalize-spdx-license-headers-before-releasing-or-open-sourcing-a-repository/)