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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2006-2023, Knut Reinert & Freie Universität Berlin
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2016-2023, Knut Reinert & MPI für molekulare Genetik
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC0-1.0
+
+name: License
+
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - 'main'
+  pull_request:
+    types:
+      - unlabeled
+  workflow_dispatch:
+
+concurrency:
+  group: license-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: ${{ github.event_name != 'push' }}
+
+env:
+  TZ: Europe/Berlin
+
+jobs:
+  check:
+    name: REUSE Compliance
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    timeout-minutes: 120
+    if: github.repository_owner == 'seqan' || github.event_name == 'workflow_dispatch' || github.event.label.name == 'lint'
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: REUSE Compliance Check
+        uses: fsfe/reuse-action@v2