pkgctl-license-check(1)

pkgctl-license-check1

Checks package licensing compliance using reuse

Usage

pkgctl license check [OPTIONS] [PKGBASE ...]

Overview

Checks package licensing compliance using REUSE and also verifies whether a LICENSE file with the expected Arch Linux-specific 0BSD license text exists.

Configuration

Uses reuse(1) and a REUSE.toml file located alongside the PKGBUILD(5). Refer to the configuration section in pkgctl-license(1).

If no PKGBASE is specified, the command defaults to using the current working directory.

Options

-h, --help

Show a help text

Exit status

On exit, return one of the following codes:

0

Normal exit condition, all checked packages are compliant

1

Unknown cause of failure

2

Normal exit condition, but some packages are not compliant

Homepage

<https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools>

Please report bugs and feature requests in the issue tracker. Please do your best to provide a reproducible test case for bugs.

From devtools 1:1.5.3-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.