Have CollectOSS look for and automatically read `.env`

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Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
68/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Quiet
Tech stack
python
Domain
cli, developer-experience

Research direction

Start at the CollectOSS CLI entry point and inspect how its runtime configuration and dependencies are declared. Use python-dotenv's load_dotenv as requested, then run the CLI with a local .env file to verify that its values are read without manually exporting environment variables.

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Description

devops

This will make developing CollectOSS easier by allowing a developer to essentially uv run the CollectOSS CLI to test things out without having to muck around quite as much with environment variables

We should use python-dotenv's load_dotenv function for this

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Python
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