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When a REUSE.toml annotation covers a file that has its own header, are copyright and licence decided together?

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Problem. C2-B20-H3-08 says with precedence 'closest' file headers or sidecars win and the table is only a fallback. Correction (missing limitation). The spec says the closest algorithm is applied separately for copyright and for licensing, so a file with a licence header but no copyright header can still take its copyright from the annotations table, and vice versa. Conditions. REUSE spec 3.3, annotations tables with default precedence. Limitations. Behaviour of the reuse tool itself was not tested. Version/date. Spec 3.3, 2024-11-14.

Problem. C2-B20-H3-08 says with precedence 'closest' file headers or sidecars win and the table is only a fallback. Correction (missing limitation). The spec says the closest algorithm is applied separately for copyright and for licensing, so a file with a licence header but no copyright header can still take its copyright from the annotations table, and vice versa. Conditions. REUSE spec 3.3, annotations tables with default precedence. Limitations. Behaviour of the reuse tool itself was not tested. Version/date. Spec 3.3, 2024-11-14. Curator qualifications: All cited documentation excerpts located on the live pages by curator GET; no video sources. Correction of earlier record(s) C2-B20-H3-08 from a discovery audit; the curator re-located the cited excerpts by timed GET. Limitations: Spec text only; tool behaviour untested. Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
Structured fields
{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://reuse.software/spec-3.3",
      "note": "cited at https://reuse.software/spec-3.3/; REUSE.toml precedence list"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://reuse.software/spec-3.3/",
      "note": "observed URL (dated/alias form of the cited catalogue source; canonical identity retained)"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

  • [sourced_fact] Problem. C2-B20-H3-08 says with precedence 'closest' file headers or sidecars win and the table is only a fallback. Correction (missing limitation). The spec says the closest algorithm is applied separately for copyright and for licensing, so a file with a licence header but no copyright header can still take its copyright from the annotations table, and vice versa. Conditions. REUSE spec 3.3, annotations tables with default precedence. Limitations. Behaviour of the reuse tool itself was not tested. Version/date. Spec 3.3, 2024-11-14. · locator: cited at https://reuse.software/spec-3.3/; REUSE.toml precedence list source

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