2024-08-03, 10:40–11:10 (Asia/Taipei), TR412-2
You picked a license for your project, but what now? What is best practice to add licensing information? How do you verify that you got it right? And what about tools that work with licensing information in an automated way?
These questions can be difficult, especially when reusing software from different projects that are released under various different licenses. But using code from multiple sources is what Software Freedom is about. This is where REUSE comes in: The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) started REUSE to provide a set of recommendations to make licensing your Free Software projects easier. Not only do these recommendations make it easier for you to declare the licenses under which your works are released, they also make it easier for a computer to understand how your project is licensed. With three simple steps, you can follow best practice and you can verify that with the REUSE tool.
Florian Snow is a software developer from Nuremberg, Germany with a background in a variety of different fields such as teaching, programming, linguistics, and design. He became interested in Free Software around 1999 and has been active in the community since around 2006. Apart from his job as a software developer, he works and volunteers for the Free Software Foundation Europe where he has been active in many different areas over the years.