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Postulate that snippet tags be closed
carmenbianca Sep 26, 2024
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions CHANGELOG.md
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Expand Up @@ -56,6 +56,10 @@ This is the change log for the REUSE Specification.

### Fixed

- Clarified that snippet tags must be closed. This was technically already the
case with a certain reading of the SPDX specification, but it has now been
made explicit.

### Security

## 3.2 - 2024-07-03
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Expand Up @@ -177,12 +177,14 @@ An example of a comment header:
#### In-line Snippet comments

Sometimes Licensing Information only applies to a certain Snippet instead of the
whole Commentable File. For these cases SPDX snippet tags MUST be used for that
whole Commentable File. For these cases, SPDX snippet tags MUST be used for that
Snippet (as defined in [SPDX Specification, Annex
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Eh, even when corrected, this language is awkward. Let's reword.

H](https://spdx.github.io/spdx-spec/v2.3/file-tags/#h3-snippet-tags-format)).
This means that Copyright Notices inside of Snippets MUST be prefixed with
`SPDX-SnippetCopyrightText`.

Each Snippet that is opened MUST be closed with `SPDX-SnippetEnd`.

Like with comment headers, the SPDX snippet tags SHOULD be commented.

A Snippet SHOULD contain both a Copyright Notice and an SPDX License Expression.
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