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Make our SPDX checks capable of handling multiple Copyright headers
benbz Oct 24, 2025
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Use the generated SPDX for changed files checks
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Generated files should have the new entity and year ranges
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57 changes: 11 additions & 46 deletions .github/workflows/licensing.yml
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# Copyright 2024-2025 New Vector Ltd
# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only

name: Licensing checks
name: Licensing & Copyright checks

on:
pull_request:
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contents: read

jobs:
reuse-compliance-check:
reuse-licensing-and-copyright-checks:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5
with:
fetch-depth: 0

- uses: matrix-org/setup-python-poetry@5bbf6603c5c930615ec8a29f1b5d7d258d905aa4 # v2
with:
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reuse --version
reuse lint

- name: SPDX checks
- name: Generate SPDX
run: |
git config --global --add safe.directory "$GITHUB_WORKSPACE"
reuse --version
reuse spdx | ./scripts/spdx_checks.py
reuse spdx > "$RUNNER_TEMP/reuse.spdx"

copyright-dates:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
steps:
- name: Checkout
uses: actions/checkout@08c6903cd8c0fde910a37f88322edcfb5dd907a8 # v5
with:
fetch-depth: 0
- name: SPDX checks
run: |
./scripts/spdx_check_all_files.py "$RUNNER_TEMP/reuse.spdx"

# REUSE-IgnoreStart
- name: Copyright dates
env:
BASE_REF: ${{ github.event.pull_request.base.sha }}
HEAD_REF: ${{ github.event.pull_request.head.sha }}
run: |
echo "Comparing $BASE_REF against current branch HEAD $(git rev-parse "$HEAD_REF")"
error_flag="false"

# Get the list of changed files
changed_files=$(git diff --diff-filter=rd --name-only "$BASE_REF...$HEAD_REF")
copyright_year_now=$(date +%Y)
# Function to check if the copyright header is present in the file
# We ignore files without copyrights as we only want to check if the copyright is correct
# The check-enterprise-licensing job will verify that all files are copyrighted
has_copyright_header() {
file="$1"
head -n 5 "$file" | grep -q "Copyright"
}
# Function to check if the copyright header is present with the correct date
check_copyright_header() {
file="$1"
head -n 5 "$file" | grep -qE "Copyright $2" "$file"
}

echo "Changed files to verify : $changed_files"
# Loop through each changed file
for file in $changed_files; do
if [ -e "$file" ]; then
if has_copyright_header "$file" && ! check_copyright_header "$file" "$copyright_year_now" && ! check_copyright_header "$file" "20[0-9]{2}-$copyright_year_now"; then
echo "Copyright header not found or incorrect in $file"
error_flag="true"
fi
else
echo "$file was removed"
fi
done

if [ "$error_flag" = "true" ]; then
echo "errors happened"
exit 1
else
echo "no errors"
exit 0
fi
# REUSE-IgnoreEnd
echo "$changed_files" | xargs ./scripts/spdx_check_changed_file.py "$RUNNER_TEMP/reuse.spdx"
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[[annotations]]
path = "newsfragments/*.md"
SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "Copyright 2025 New Vector Ltd"
SPDX-FileCopyrightText = ["Copyright 2025 New Vector Ltd", "Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd"]
SPDX-License-Identifier = "AGPL-3.0-only"
precedence = "aggregate"

[[annotations]]
path = "docs/assets/images/*.png"
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# Copyright 2024-2025 New Vector Ltd
# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only

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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only

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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only

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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: AGPL-3.0-only

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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
#
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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# Copyright 2025 Element Creations Ltd
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