Re: license of empty file

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On Sun, Oct 22, 2023 at 2:00 AM Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Webkitgtk has interresting file:
>
>    Documentation/jsc-glib-4.1/fonts.css
>
> The file has this content:
>
> /*
> * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2021 GNOME Foundation
> *
> * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-3.0-or-later
> */
>
> And that is all. No other content is there. So it is literaly an empty file with license declaration.
>
> Should this license be honored and put in License tag of spec file? Or is it copyright of not-copyrightable file and
> should be ignored?

As a general rule, empty files should be ignored. It should certainly
not be accounted for in the License tag.

There are some cases where something like this could be a clue to how
*another* file is licensed but I think that is unlikely here because
this looks like it is the result of an attempt to make a repository
REUSE-conformant.

Richard
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