diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 9a074c39..3bd2fbdc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 [![CI](https://github.com/freemkv/libfreemkv/actions/workflows/ci.yml/badge.svg)](https://github.com/freemkv/libfreemkv/actions/workflows/ci.yml)
 [![codecov](https://codecov.io/gh/freemkv/libfreemkv/branch/dev/graph/badge.svg)](https://codecov.io/gh/freemkv/libfreemkv)
 [![OpenSSF Scorecard](https://api.securityscorecards.dev/projects/github.com/freemkv/libfreemkv/badge)](https://scorecard.dev/viewer/?uri=github.com/freemkv/libfreemkv)
+[![OpenSSF Best Practices](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/14745/badge)](https://www.bestpractices.dev/projects/14745)
+[![REUSE status](https://api.reuse.software/badge/github.com/freemkv/libfreemkv)](https://api.reuse.software/info/github.com/freemkv/libfreemkv)
 [![MSRV](https://img.shields.io/badge/MSRV-1.88-blue.svg)](#minimum-supported-rust-version)
 
 # libfreemkv
diff --git a/REUSE.toml b/REUSE.toml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..6c5c27f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/REUSE.toml
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+version = 1
+
+# REUSE (https://reuse.software) machine-readable licensing for the whole repo.
+#
+# Licensing is declared here in the manifest rather than as per-file inline
+# headers: the project's comment-guard lint caps stacked `//` comment blocks, so
+# a two-line SPDX header prepended above an existing top-of-file comment would
+# trip it. REUSE explicitly supports manifest-based annotation, so every file —
+# Rust sources, documentation, configuration, workflows, scripts, binary assets,
+# and the byte-exact `.golden` test fixtures — is covered here instead.
+#
+# The whole repository is the project's own work under the MIT licence; there is
+# no third-party vendored source here.
+
+[[annotations]]
+path = [
+    "**/*.rs",
+    "**/*.md",
+    "**/*.toml",
+    "**/*.lock",
+    "**/*.yml",
+    "**/*.yaml",
+    "**/*.json",
+    "**/*.sh",
+    "**/*.py",
+    "**/*.ps1",
+    "**/*.golden",
+    "**/*.svg",
+    "**/*.png",
+    "**/*.ico",
+    "**/*.plist",
+    "**/*.manifest",
+    "**/.gitignore",
+    ".gitignore",
+    "Makefile",
+    "LICENSE",
+    "build.rs",
+]
+precedence = "aggregate"
+SPDX-FileCopyrightText = "2026 Matthew Jackson & Contributors"
+SPDX-License-Identifier = "MIT"