REUSE-DOWNLOAD(1)

💖 REUSE-DOWNLOAD(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the reuse corner of the manual — this one's all about <hotpink>reuse-download</hotpink>, and it's genuinely so useful you'll be obsessed ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

reuse-download — bestie, it downloads license files for you. that's the whole vibe. 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

reuse download [options] [license ...]

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so like, reuse-download downloads licenses straight into your LICENSES/ directory. slay. 🫶

the license arguments must be SPDX License Identifiers — no cap, that's non-negotiable, that's the whole system.

the LICENSES/ directory is gonna be found in the root of your project. and here's the cute lil exception: if you're already chillin' inside a directory named LICENSES and you're not in a VCS repository, then that directory itself will be used. iykyk 🧚

and if no LICENSES/ directory exists at all? don't stress, one will be created for you. main character energy, honestly. 🌈

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✨ OPTIONS ✨

• --all — downloads all the licenses that were detected as missing in the project. like a full sweep, no license left behind 🔥
• -o, --output FILE — if you're only downloading a single file, this sends it to a specific FILE instead of dropping it into a detected LICENSES/ directory. one file, one destination, effortless 🎀
• --source PATH — tells it where to copy custom LicenseRef- files from. the PATH can be a directory that contains such a file, or a path straight to the file itself. your choice, bestie 💜
• --help — displays help and dips out. love that for us 💅

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Free Software Foundation Europe 💖

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⭐ COPYRIGHT ⭐

2026, Free Software Foundation Europe. CC-BY-SA-4.0 — respect the license, bestie 🫶

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k that's the whole page, you ate that ngl 🌸 stay iconic, download those licenses, and remember: this is reuse-download from version 6.2.0, dated Jul 16, 2026 — mwah, see you in the next manpage 💋💖