06-01, 13:00–13:50 (Europe/Brussels), Kleine Spoel (0.31)
Software licensing and Free and Open Source Software are tied at the hip, but it's an unhappy marriage. Software developers are not field experts in copyright and licensing, and (rightfully) do not want to be. Fortunately, the REUSE Initiative by the Free Software Foundation Europe seeks to make copyright and licensing as easy as possible for developers. With three simple steps, it makes the process easy for humans and readable for machines, as well as comprehensive and unambiguous.
To make adoption as easy as possible, REUSE comes with documentation and tooling, most importantly a linter that verifies that you have comprehensively licensed your code and provided all the necessary licence texts.
This talk is an introduction for the uninitiated, giving an overview of the initiative and some guide lines on how to become compliant.
Carmen is a software engineer at Coop IT Easy in Brussels and long-time volunteer at the Free Software Foundation Europe, where she is the project manager for the REUSE Initiative.