feat: replace license #1209
Description
I'm relicensing my software (only I have contributed) but it would appear that reuse only appends license. There is no replace. This means I'm going to have to go through and remove the existing licenses first. I would have thought that with reuse annotate
--no-replace Do not replace the first header in the file;
just add a new one.
would have prevented replacment, and without it the header would simply be replaced
this is the change I got running
reuse annotate --license 'AGPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0' --copyright 'Caleb Cushing' --copyright-prefix spdx-string-symbol --merge-copyrights module/git/src/main/java/com/xenoterracide/gradle/git/*-// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © 2024 Caleb Cushing
+// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright © 2024 - 2025 Caleb Cushing
//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-or-later WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
// SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0an option like
--replace-license
would be nice
reuse, version 5.0.2
This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.