Hi all,
Today, we released the official release of REUSE 3.0 which contains many exciting improvements. REUSE helps developers to declare copyright and licensing of their projects. The new version makes it easier than ever to follow the best practices for Free Software projects.
REUSE 3.0 is accompanied by a brand new tutorial and FAQ. The latest version of the REUSE helper tool will make it much easier for developers to get their repositories REUSE compliant, and can be included in numerous CI/CD workflows.
For some more background information, please find the full announcement here:
https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190807-01.html
I am looking forward to your feedback! Please consider making your software projects REUSE compliant, and let us know how it worked.
Feel free to join the mailing list to get in touch with us and other REUSE adopters [^1].
Best, Max
[^1]: https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/reuse
Thanks for sharing, it's very interesting :)
On August 7, 2019 11:34:03 AM GMT+02:00, Max Mehl max.mehl@fsfe.org wrote:
Hi all,
Today, we released the official release of REUSE 3.0 which contains many exciting improvements. REUSE helps developers to declare copyright and licensing of their projects. The new version makes it easier than ever to follow the best practices for Free Software projects.
REUSE 3.0 is accompanied by a brand new tutorial and FAQ. The latest version of the REUSE helper tool will make it much easier for developers to get their repositories REUSE compliant, and can be included in numerous CI/CD workflows.
For some more background information, please find the full announcement here:
https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190807-01.html
I am looking forward to your feedback! Please consider making your software projects REUSE compliant, and let us know how it worked.
Feel free to join the mailing list to get in touch with us and other REUSE adopters [^1].
Best, Max
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On Wednesday 7. August 2019 11.34.03 Max Mehl wrote:
For some more background information, please find the full announcement here:
https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190807-01.html
I am looking forward to your feedback! Please consider making your software projects REUSE compliant, and let us know how it worked.
Sorry not to have looked at more than the FAQ and some of the usage documents, but does the tool support generation of Debian DEP-5 copyright files? Also, noting that the pip tool is suggested as a way of installing the software, are there plans for the tool to be packaged in Debian?
Paul
Je mer, 2019-08-07 je 16:01 +0200, Paul Boddie skribis:
On Wednesday 7. August 2019 11.34.03 Max Mehl wrote:
For some more background information, please find the full announcement here:
https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20190807-01.html
I am looking forward to your feedback! Please consider making your software projects REUSE compliant, and let us know how it worked.
Sorry not to have looked at more than the FAQ and some of the usage documents, but does the tool support generation of Debian DEP-5 copyright files? Also, noting that the pip tool is suggested as a way of installing the software, are there plans for the tool to be packaged in Debian?
The tool currently outputs a template of a Debian DEP-5 file when you do `reuse init`. But the purpose of that file for REUSE is to cover the files that are not covered by comment headers. e.g., instead of adding headers to all files in `img/`, you add a paragraph in `.reuse/dep5` that globs all files in `img/` under a certain license.
If you want to output a Debian DEP-5 file for use in Debian packaging, this should be incredibly easy. `reuse spdx` outputs an (XML) SPDX file, which details the copyright and license of each individual file. You'd then only need to write a small conversion tool to generate the DEP-5 file. Alternatively, it would be really easy to support such a generator out of the box within the tool itself. It's not a priority, but I'll happily take PRs.
There is no current plan to package for Debian, though I have desired to get this done at some point. The problem is that I do not understand Debian packaging in the slightest. I do maintain the Fedora package, but it's a little out-of-date because of a missing dependency in the 0.4.X release.
Kindly, Carmen
~ Carmen Bianca Bakker [2019-08-08 12:48 +0200]:
There is no current plan to package for Debian, though I have desired to get this done at some point. The problem is that I do not understand Debian packaging in the slightest. I do maintain the Fedora package, but it's a little out-of-date because of a missing dependency in the 0.4.X release.
FWIW, since today there is a AUR package for the Arch Linux users [^1]. Created by me, so no guarantee at all - feedback is welcome of course :)
If somebody wants to help with packaging the tool for other distributions, please reach out to us. We will be happy to support you!
Best, Max
[^1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/reuse/