REUSE Compliance for JSON files

[nick-allen21]

What Stanford Spezi module is your challenge related to?

Spezi

Description

I have added a Json file for a certain function in my application. I am not sure how I can make this file copyright dependent

/ SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2025 Stanford University
//
// SPDX-License-Identifier: LicenseRef-QUANBIO

there is no way to add the above to the file such that the check reads it and such that I able to preoperly decode it to use in my application.

Reproduction

create a new Json file and attempt to pass the tests without changing the way you decode the json file

here is the code that I use to decode my Json

func loadRiddles() -> [Riddle] { guard let url = Bundle.main.url(forResource: "RiddlesTest", withExtension: "json"), let data = try? Data(contentsOf: url), let riddles = try? JSONDecoder().decode([Riddle].self, from: data) else { let riddle = Riddle(question: "", answer: "") return [riddle] } print(riddles) return riddles }

Expected behavior

I would like to either pass the compliance check for this Json file or find a way to add these copyright specifications to the Json file without changing how the workflow comes about.

Additional context

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[PSchmiedmayer]

@nick-allen21 The REUSE specification has a dedicated mechanism for this: https://reuse.software/spec-3.3/#comment-headers

For Uncommentable Files, the comment header that declares the file’s Licensing Information MUST be in an adjacent text file of the same name with the additional extension .license (example: cat.jpg.license if the original file is cat.jpg). The adjacent file SHOULD use UTF-8 encoding.

[nick-allen21]

Thanks for getting back to me! I tried this, and I still could not pass REUSE

Previously, I tried with a file entitles RiddleTest.swift.license and that also did work.

[PSchmiedmayer]

What is the complete file name + extension? I suspect it is RiddlesTest.json and therefore should be RiddlesTest.json.license?

[nick-allen21]

Ohhh yea that makes sense I had it as RiddlesTest.swift.license which is incorrect. Awesome well I got it to work by parsing out the comments when I process the file but in the future I will do this. Thanks!