chore: add NVIDIA SPDX license header pre-commit hook

.github/workflows/license-check.yml

@@ -16,23 +16,8 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@9c091bb21b7c1c1d1991bb908d89e4e9dddfe3e0 # v7.0.0
         with:
           persist-credentials: false
+      - uses: prefix-dev/setup-pixi@5185adfbffb4bd703da3010310260805d89ebb11 # v0.9.6
+        with:
+          cache: true
       - name: Check SPDX license headers
-        run: |
-          missing=()
-          while IFS= read -r file; do
-            if ! grep -q "SPDX-License-Identifier" "$file"; then
-              missing+=("$file")
-            fi
-          done < <(git ls-files -- '*.ts' '*.tsx' '*.rs' '*.proto' '*.css')
-
-          if [[ ${#missing[@]} -gt 0 ]]; then
-            echo "The following files are missing an SPDX license header:"
-            printf '  %s\n' "${missing[@]}"
-            echo ""
-            echo "Add the following header to the top of each file:"
-            echo "  // SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026 NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved."
-            echo "  // SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0"
-            exit 1
-          fi
-
-          echo "All $(git ls-files -- '*.ts' '*.tsx' '*.rs' '*.proto' '*.css' | wc -l | tr -d ' ') files have SPDX license headers."
+        run: pixi run pre-commit run verify-copyright --all-files

.pre-commit-config.yaml

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2026, NVIDIA CORPORATION & AFFILIATES. All rights reserved.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
+# License-header enforcement via pre-commit + rapidsai/pre-commit-hooks.
+#
+# Install locally with:
+#     pixi run pre-commit install
+#
+# Run on all files (bulk update):
+#     pixi run pre-commit run verify-copyright --all-files
+
+exclude: |
+  (?x)
+    ^target/
+    ^ui/node_modules/
+    ^ui/.pnpm-store/
+    ^docs/
+
+repos:
+
+# Insert/maintain the NVIDIA SPDX header. --spdx emits the two-line
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText / SPDX-License-Identifier block; the year range is
+# derived from git history and auto-bumped on edit.
+- repo: https://github.com/rapidsai/pre-commit-hooks
+  rev: v1.5.1
+  hooks:
+    - id: verify-copyright
+      args: [--fix, --spdx]
+      exclude: |
+        (?x)
+          bridge/include/rust/cxx\.h$|
+          bridge/include/quent-bridge/gen/|
+          examples/simulator/server/ts-bindings/
+      # When adding a new source file type to the repo, add its extension here.
+      files: |
+        (?x)
+          CMakeLists\.txt$|
+          [.](rs|js|ts|tsx|jsx|mjs|cjs|py|sh|cpp|h|proto|css)$