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Make project compatible with Reuse Software spec

Florian Müllner requested to merge fmuellner/gnome-shell-extensions:reuse into main

Provide all licenses used in the project in a LICENSES folder and add SPDX license and copyright information for all files in accordance with the Reuse Software[0] specification.

The copyright information is based on the file's git history, using a fairly generous definition of "non-trivial".

As of the spec recommendation, the information is generally added as comments in the files themselves, except for

  • NEWS, README and similar top-level standard files, so that a SPDX code isn't the first thing people encounter
  • files that don't support comments (json) or where they'd be a bit awkward (.desktop, .service)
  • anything under po/, to not interfere with translation teams

Those are covered by a .reuse/dep5 files, except for image assets, where separate .license files are used (It would be possible to add comments to SVG files, but I don't trust image editors to preserve them).

[0] https://reuse.software/

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