Provide guidance on how to handle files that are committed which were originally generated by a tool about reuse-website HOT 2 OPEN

In some licenses like the GPL family, they seem to be explicit about this. Other licenses don't seem to be as clear.

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I am not sure whether I entirely understood your proposal, so please excuse me if I got it wrong.

If the tool ignored these files and they were copyrightable and under a certain license, this would basically invalidate the whole idea of REUSE. The tool cannot know the licensing and copyright status of a file, no matter whether it's created by a human, a machine, or both. I could write a one-line tool that downloads a file either under GPL-3.0-only or 0BSD.

It's up to the REUSE adopter to clarify the licensing. Which often is not trivial, I absolutely understand that. But having reuse lint warn you about a newly created and unannotated file is excactly the idea: developers shall be aware about the licensing and copyrights they add to their repo, and communicate this transparently.

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