I want to reference a LICENSE file in my Doxygen documentation with @ref to avoid constantly rewriting a long copyright section each time I want to mention copyright. I understand I could write it all into an alias and use that instead, but I would like to avoid that. I’m assuming I can use FILE_PATTERNS but haven’t been able to figure it out.

My Doxyfile: https://pastebin.com/kRKjanKc

Project file structure:

Project-Root/
--- Dir-to-document/
------ build/
------ config/
--------- files.c
--------- files.h
------ docs/
--------- Doxyfile
--------- misc.dox
--------- SYMLINK-TO-README
--------- SYMLINK-TO-LICENSE
------ resources/
------ scripts/
------ themes/
--------- files.c
--------- files.h
------ files.c
------ files.h
--- Dir-not-documented-1/
--- Dir-not-documented-2/
--- LICENSE
--- README

scripts/, resources/, and build/ are all excluded, as well as a few config files.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, I’m just learning Doxygen. If I missed something, feel free to ask for it in the comments.