Two different license files

[ryandesign]

There are now two different curl license files: the original one at LICENSE and the newly added one at LICENSES/curl.txt. It should be possible to have a single license file that satisfies both REUSE requirements and allows GitHub to identify and display the license, in which one of these files is a symlink to the other. I forget which direction the symlink needs to be made to make both parties happy but I have seen it done in another repository.

[samueloph]

I've tried symlinks both ways and neither worked 100%:
ln -s LICENSE LICENSES/curl.txt
https://github.com/samueloph/wcurl?tab=License-1-ov-file - Doesn't show the license, only the name of the license file

ln -s LICENSES/curl.txt LICENSE
https://github.com/curl/wcurl/actions/runs/10336819570/job/28612972401 - Fails the REUSE compliance check.

[ryandesign]

According to ansible-community/community-topics#112 (comment), having the real file be the top-level COPYING (or LICENSE) file (so that GitHub can detect the license) and having a symlink to it in the LICENSES directory (for REUSE) should have worked. If this failed the REUSE compliance check, then the REUSE compliance check should be fixed.