REUSE-CONVERT-DEP5(1)

🌸 REUSE-CONVERT-DEP5 💅

okay bestie, so this page is from the reuse manual — yeah, as in the reuse command family — and the star of the show is reuse-convert-dep5. it's a glow-up operation for your licensing metadata. literally a before/after reveal. 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

reuse-convert-dep5 — Convert .reuse/dep5 to REUSE.toml 👑

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

reuse convert-dep5 [options]

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: reuse-convert-dep5 converts the .reuse/dep5 file into a functionally equivalent REUSE.toml file in the root of the project. same energy, new outfit. ✨

and then the .reuse/dep5 file is subsequently deleted. no cap — she does not stick around. 😭 so like, maybe back it up if you're feeling sentimental, iykyk? 🙈

🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• --help — Display help and exit. that's it, that's the whole list, and honestly she ate. 🍓

🧚 EXAMPLES 🧚

⭐ the before ⭐

Given the following .reuse/dep5 file:

Format: https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/copyright-format/1.0/
Upstream-Name: Some project
Upstream-Contact: Jane Doe
Source: https://example.com/
Disclaimer: Some rights reserved

Files: hello*.txt
Copyright: 2018 Jane Doe
License: MIT
Comment: hello world

Files: foo bar
Copyright: 2018 Jane Doe
    2019 John Doe
License: MIT

🔥 the after 🔥 (and she served)

The following REUSE.toml is generated:

version = 1
SPDX-PackageName = "Some project"
SPDX-PackageSupplier = "Jane Doe"
SPDX-PackageDownloadLocation = "https://example.com/"
SPDX-PackageComment = "Some rights reserved"

[[annotations]]
path = "hello**.txt"
precedence = "aggregate"
SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "2018 Jane Doe"
SPDX-License-Identifier = "MIT"
SPDX-FileComment = "hello world"

[[annotations]]
path = ["foo", "bar"]
precedence = "aggregate"
SPDX-FileCopyrightText = ["2018 Jane Doe", "2019 John Doe"]
SPDX-License-Identifier = "MIT"

like, look at those [[annotations]] blocks. two copyright holders merged into one list, the glob became hello**.txt, everything's tidy. main character energy fr fr. 👑

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Free Software Foundation Europe — absolute icons, we stan. 🫶

💜 COPYRIGHT 💜

2026, Free Software Foundation Europe. CC-BY-SA-4.0

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that's the whole page bestie, go forth and convert responsibly. and remember: this was reuse-convert-dep5, part of the reuse manual, version 6.2.0, dated Jul 16, 2026. mwah 💋✨ </｜DSML｜ parameter>