Change log

This change log follows the Keep a Changelog spec. Every release contains the following sections:

  • Added for new features.
  • Changed for changes in existing functionality.
  • Deprecated for soon-to-be removed features.
  • Removed for now removed features.
  • Fixed for any bug fixes.
  • Security in case of vulnerabilities.

The versions follow semantic versioning.

0.3.4 - 2019-04-15

This release should be a short-lived one. A new (slightly backwards-incompatible) version is in the works.

Added

  • Copyrights can now start with © in addition to Copyright. The former is now recommended, but they are functionally similar.

Changed

0.3.3 - 2018-07-15

Fixed

  • Any files with the suffix .spdx are no longer considered licenses.

0.3.2 - 2018-07-15

Fixed

  • The documentation now builds under Python 3.7.

0.3.1 - 2018-07-14

Fixed

  • When using reuse from a child directory using pygit2, correctly find the root.

0.3.0 - 2018-05-16

Changed

  • The output of reuse compile is now deterministic. The files, copyright lines and SPDX expressions are sorted alphabetically.

Fixed

  • When a GPL license could not be found, the correct -only or -or-later extension is now used in the warning message, rather than a bare GPL-3.0.
  • If you have a license listed as SPDX-Valid-License: GPL-3.0-or-later, this now correctly matches corresponding SPDX identifiers. Still it is recommended to use SPDX-Valid-License: GPL-3.0 instead.

0.2.0 - 2018-04-17

Added

  • Internationalisation support added. Initial support for:
    • English.
    • Dutch.
    • Esperanto.
    • Spanish.

Fixed

  • The license list of SPDX 3.0 has deprecated GPL-3.0 and GPL-3.0+ et al in favour of GPL-3.0-only and GPL-3.0-or-later. The program has been amended to accommodate sufficiently for those licenses.

Changed

  • Project.reuse_info_of now extracts, combines and returns information both from the file itself and from debian/copyright.
  • ReuseInfo now holds sets instead of lists.
    • As a result of this, ReuseInfo will not hold duplicates of copyright lines or SPDX expressions.
  • click removed as dependency. Good old argparse from the library is used instead.

0.1.1 - 2017-12-14

Changed

  • The reuse --help text has been tidied up a little bit.

Fixed

  • Release date in change log fixed.
  • The PyPI homepage now gets reStructuredText instead of Markdown.

0.1.0 - 2017-12-14

Added

  • Successfully parse old-style C and HTML comments now.
  • Added reuse compile, which creates an SPDX bill of materials.
  • Added --ignore-missing to reuse lint.
  • Allow to specify multiple paths to reuse lint.
  • chardet added as dependency.
  • pygit2 added as soft dependency. reuse remains usable without it, but the performance with pygit2 is significantly better. Because pygit2 has a non-Python dependency (libgit2), it must be installed independently by the user. In the future, when reuse is packaged natively, this will not be an issue.

Changed

  • Updated to version 2.0 of the REUSE Initiative recommendations. The most important change is that License-Filename is no longer used. Instead, the filename is deducted from SPDX-License-Identifier. This change is NOT backwards compatible.
  • The conditions for linting have changed. A file is now non-compliant when:
    • The license associated with the file could not be found.
    • There is no SPDX expression associated with the file.
    • There is no copyright notice associated with the file.
  • Only read the first 4 KiB (by default) from code files rather than the entire file when searching for SPDX tags. This speeds up the tool a bit.
  • Project.reuse_info_of no longer raises an exception. Instead, it returns an empty ReuseInfo object when no reuse information is found.
  • Logging is a lot prettier now. Only output entries from the reuse module.

Fixed

  • reuse --ignore-debian compile now works as expected.
  • The tool no longer breaks when reading a file that has a non-UTF-8 encoding. Instead, chardet is used to detect the encoding before reading the file. If a file still has errors during decoding, those errors are silently ignored and replaced.

0.0.4 - 2017-11-06

Fixed

  • Removed dependency on os.PathLike so that Python 3.5 is actually supported

0.0.3 - 2017-11-06

Fixed

  • Fixed the link to PyPI in the README.

0.0.2 - 2017-11-03

This is a very early development release aimed at distributing the program as soon as possible. Because this is the first release, the changelog is a little empty beyond “created the program”.

The program can do roughly the following:

  • Detect the license of a given file through one of three methods (in order of precedence):
    • Information embedded in the .license file.
    • Information embedded in its header.
    • Information from the global debian/copyright file.
  • Find and report all files in a project tree of which the license could not be found.
  • Ignore files ignored by Git.
  • Do some logging into STDERR.