Bundle Licenses

Sysand Index requires all projects to provide a SPDX license expression in the license field of .project.json and associated license files under a LICENSES/ directory. SPDX provides standard license identifiers such as MIT and Apache-2.0; REUSE provides the convention for including the matching license texts under LICENSES/.

When you run sysand build, the relevant files under LICENSES/ are automatically packaged with the built .kpar file, or a warning is emitted.

Name each file after the identifier it covers:

{
  "license": "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
}

project-directory/
  .project.json
  .meta.json
  LICENSES/
    MIT.txt
    Apache-2.0.txt

Use the same rule for WITH exceptions and custom LicenseRef- identifiers: GPL-2.0-only WITH Classpath-exception-2.0 needs LICENSES/GPL-2.0-only.txt and LICENSES/Classpath-exception-2.0.txt; LicenseRef-MyCustom needs LICENSES/LicenseRef-MyCustom.txt.