By default, repositories should have no license#114
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Pull request overview
Updates the reusable “apply REUSE headers” workflow to default to applying no license (instead of Apache-2.0) when callers don’t explicitly specify a license, aligning the default behavior with the repository template’s intent.
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- Changed the
workflow_callinputlicensedefault fromapache-2.0toLicenseRef-NONE.
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| description: "The SPDX name of the license to use." | ||
| type: string | ||
| required: false | ||
| default: apache-2.0 | ||
| default: LicenseRef-NONE |
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The input description says this should be an SPDX license identifier, but LicenseRef-NONE is a custom LicenseRef-* (and typically requires a corresponding license text under LICENSES/ for REUSE compliance). If the intent is truly “no license”, consider using an SPDX-supported sentinel like NONE/NOASSERTION (if supported by the underlying reuse tool) or update the workflow/action to support omitting the --license flag entirely; otherwise update the description to indicate a full SPDX license expression (including LicenseRef-*) and ensure downstream REUSE lint won’t fail due to a missing license text.
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Updates the default action runner to use no license. This is used by UoMResearchIT/RSE-Repository-Template#77