FAQ item for statically provided dependencies

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FAQ item for statically provided dependencies #136

Open carmenbianca opened 11 months ago

carmenbianca commented 11 months ago

I haven't checked yet whether we already have an FAQ item for this. It would be really good to have instructions/thoughts on using DEP5 to declare the licensing of directories containing a full (static) copy of a dependency.

Example:

https://github.com/alliander-opensource/mixed-reality-franka-emika-control/blob/main/.reuse/dep5

silverhook commented 11 months ago

(Not disagreeing but) I wonder if this is not better handled with an *.ABOUT file

pombredanne commented 11 months ago

We should join efforts!

silverhook commented 11 months ago

If possible, merging (at least parts of) ABOUT into REUSE makes a lot of sense to me, yes.

Especially when it comes to *.license files and the upcoming “reuse.yaml“, there are many things that we could learn or even adopt from *.ABOUT files, which has had some practical use so far.