[REUSE] is a specification that aims at making file copyright
information consistent, so that it can be both human and machine
readable. It basically requires that all files have a header containing
copyright and licensing information. When this isn't possible, like
when dealing with binary assets, generated files or embedded third-party
dependencies, it is permitted to insert copyright information in the
`.reuse/dep5` file.
Oh, and it also requires that all the licenses used in the project are
present in the `LICENSES` folder, that's why the diff is so huge.
This can be done automatically with `reuse download --all`.
The `reuse` tool also contains a handy subcommand that analyzes the
project and tells whether or not the project is (still) compliant,
`reuse lint`.
Following REUSE has a few advantages over the current approach:
- Copyright information is easy to access for users / downstream
- Files like `dist/license.md` do not need to exist anymore, as
`.reuse/dep5` is used instead
- `reuse lint` makes it easy to ensure that copyright information of
files like binary assets / images is always accurate and up to date
To add copyright information of files that didn't have it I looked up
who committed what and when, for each file. As yuzu contributors do not
have to sign a CLA or similar I couldn't assume that copyright ownership
was of the "yuzu Emulator Project", so I used the name and/or email of
the commit author instead.
[REUSE]: https://reuse.software
Follow-up to b2eb103829
This allows importing of external libraries into externals/ without
having to reformat them. Unfortunately it also allows whitespace to be
introduced in files like the root CMakeLists.txt, but that is a small
downside compared to the tradeoff.
Remove unneeded stuff from pre-commit script
The check against an empty commit was not needed (it is only a security for the 1st commit after git init).
It could also possibly pose problems because of the redirection to /dev/null on some windows systems.
newline at EOF & fixed indent
Andrea Pappacoda