REUSE: Making Free Software Licensing Easier For All
summary
Project prescribes adding a short comment header with an SPDX license identifier and copyright contact to every source file, supplies a reuse-helper that fetches full license text, lints headers and verifies compliance, and offers a reuse API that registers repos and produces a dynamic badge. Scans run in minutes for normal repos (hours for thousands of files). Large adopters include the Linux kernel, already 60–70% reuse compliant, and multiple EU NGI projects.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Start
- 2:19Assumptions
- 4:21Common Difficulties Faced
- 8:15REUSE helps YOU!
- 9:41Three Simple Steps
- 11:04Add Copyright and License Information
- 16:38REUSE Components
- 18:47REUSE Adopters
- 20:15An Internet for a free and open digital society
- 21:57How Do These NGIO Actions Work?
- 23:01FSFE's Role
- 24:23REUSE Compliance
- 25:41different parts of the compliance job. Where on the compliance tool map is REUSE?
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