REUSE compliance of nextcloud/server

Unfortunately, github.com/nextcloud/server is not REUSE compliant and does not fully adopt the recommendations to make software licensing easy for humans and machines alike. Have a look at our tutorial to learn about the three simple steps to become REUSE compliant.

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To add the badge to your project's README.md file, use the following snippet: 

[![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/nextcloud/server)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/nextcloud/server)

Machine-readable information

The API provides machine-readable artifacts for automatic analysis.

  • All information about the latest compliance check can also be accessed via a machine-parsable JSON file.
  • You can gather the automatically generated SPDX SBOM in Tag:Value format, based on the reuse spdx command.

Last lint output

Commit c4eddb5947e757d7e8aadf80e5c431f654018cff was checked on 22 Feb 2026 01:58:14 UTC with the following result: 

# MISSING COPYRIGHT AND LICENSING INFORMATION

The following files have no copyright and licensing information:
* apps/user_picker/l10n/cs.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/cs.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/de.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/de.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/de_DE.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/de_DE.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/es.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/es.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/fr.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/fr.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/ga.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/ga.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/gl.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/gl.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/oc.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/oc.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/sk.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/sk.json
* apps/user_picker/l10n/uk.js
* apps/user_picker/l10n/uk.json

# SUMMARY

* Bad licenses: 0
* Deprecated licenses: 0
* Licenses without file extension: 0
* Missing licenses: 0
* Unused licenses: 0
* Used licenses: AGPL-3.0-only, AGPL-3.0-or-later, Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, BSD-3-Clause, CC-BY-2.0, CC-BY-4.0, CC-BY-SA-2.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0, CC-BY-SA-3.0-IGO, CC-BY-SA-4.0, CC0-1.0, GPL-2.0-only, GPL-3.0-or-later, ISC, LicenseRef-AppleAppStoreBadge, LicenseRef-CollaboraTrademarks, LicenseRef-DCO, LicenseRef-DiasporaTrademarks, LicenseRef-FacebookTrademarks, LicenseRef-GooglePlayBadge, LicenseRef-MastodonTrademarks, LicenseRef-Nasa, LicenseRef-NextcloudTrademarks, LicenseRef-Unsplash, LicenseRef-XTrademarks, MIT, MPL-2.0, OFL-1.1, OFL-1.1-RFN
* Read errors: 0
* Invalid SPDX License Expressions: 0
* Files with copyright information: 11577 / 11597
* Files with license information: 11577 / 11597

Unfortunately, your project is not compliant with version 3.3 of the REUSE Specification :-(


# RECOMMENDATIONS

* Fix missing copyright/licensing information: For one or more files, the tool
  cannot find copyright and/or licensing information. You typically do this by
  adding 'SPDX-FileCopyrightText' and 'SPDX-License-Identifier' tags to each
  file. The tutorial explains additional ways to do this: