Consider REUSE specifications developed by FSFE

decentralized-identity / universal-resolver

Universal Resolver implementation and drivers.

https://uniresolver.io/

Apache License 2.0

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Consider REUSE specifications developed by FSFE #85

Open peacekeeper opened 4 years ago

peacekeeper commented 4 years ago

I have been contacted via e-mail by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). They are proposing that we adopt the REUSE specifications developed by the FSFE. They have shared the following links related to this:

They have also shared the following document:

FSFE - 1 - Best Practices for Software Licensing.pdf

peacekeeper commented 4 years ago

I have now received a "Licensing Review Report" from the FSFE regarding this and related repositories.

The recommended actions are:

_1. Please add the copyright and licensing information to each plain text file in your repository that do not currently have a comment header.

You may wish to place certain files that can be considered “insignificant” into the “public domain._

See the report for details:

FSFE Licensing Review Report (universal did resolver) .pdf

peacekeeper commented 3 years ago

We reviewed this on the 14 Jul 2021 Universal Resolver Work Item Call:

Regarding recommended action 1, we like the idea and may apply this at some point.
Regarding recommended action 2, we don't see a lot of benefit, since the entire repository is already covered by the permissive Apache 2.0 license, therefore we are not likely to apply this.

peacekeeper commented 2 years ago

We discussed this again on the 06 Oct 2021 Universal Resolver Work Item Call and decided to leave the issue open. We believe adding copyright/license information to each file indeed has some advantages.