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<title>REUSE Booster helps Free Software projects with licensing and copyright</title>
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<h1>REUSE Booster helps Free Software projects with licensing and copyright</h1>
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<p>
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REUSE is a set of best practices to make Free Software licensing much
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easier. It helps developers with simple guidelines to declare
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their copyright and conditions for code re-use and provides help documents
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and low-threshold tools to get the job done. With REUSE Booster, we
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start to give direct support for Free Software projects.
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<p>
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Since its beginning, the aim of <a
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href="https://reuse.software">REUSE</a>, an initiative led by the
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Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE), has been to make licensing
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and copyright drastically easier for developers, especially those
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without legal experience and assistance. It is fair to say that this
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goal has already been achieved.
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REUSE offers standardised ways to mark all files in a project with
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their respective license and copyright. For developers, creating Free
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Software and communicating their conditions for code re-use are easier
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than ever before. REUSE offers a tutorial and FAQ, as well as the REUSE
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helper tool and the API to automate once manual processes. We are
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continuously working on improving all of these. But we won't stop
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here.
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</p>
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<h2>Introducing REUSE Booster</h2>
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With REUSE Booster, we go one step further. We invite Free Software
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projects to <a href="https://reuse.software/booster">register for
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getting help</a> by the FSFE's legal experts. As the name suggests,
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this will boost the process of adopting the best practices as well as
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general understanding of licensing and copyright.
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</p>
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<figure class="no-border">
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<img
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src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/0027eafb7bb2fdb1ec479675c1070ae2.png"
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alt="REUSE Booster Logo" />
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</figure>
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<p>
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Accepted projects will be onboarded in a kick-off workshop in which
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the process and typical questions are clarified. Afterwards, each
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project will receive an individual evaluation that reveals
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potential challenges on their path to full REUSE compliance. If
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unforeseen problems arise, there will be direct contact persons that
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can provide guidance. Last but not least we will share practical
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suggestions on how to maintain a stable licensing status.
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</p>
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<p>
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The FSFE already provides similar support for all projects in the <a
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href="/activities/ngi/">Next Generation Internet Zero (NGI0)
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project</a>. As consortium partners, we help developers to resolve
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licensing and copyright uncertainties and avoid legal pitfalls.
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Furthermore, many of them adopt the REUSE best practices to
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streamline their compliance. We now build on this practical
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experience and enable other projects to benefit from it. This is made
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possible by <a href="https://reuse.software/supporters/">REUSE
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sponsors</a> like Siemens and individual support by FSFE
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volunteers and <a href="https://my.fsfe.org/support">supporters</a>.
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</p>
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<p>
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If your Free Software project wants to get support to become REUSE
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compliant, <a href="https://reuse.software/booster">register</a>
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before 8 July 2021. Please also spread the word and inform other
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developers about this opportunity.
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</p>
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<tags>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="reuse">REUSE</tag>
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<tag key="licensing">Licensing</tag>
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<tag key="copyright">Copyright</tag>
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<tag key="ngi">Next Generation Internet</tag>
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</tags>
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<discussion href="https://community.fsfe.org/t/698"/>
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<image url="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/medium/c72b70a63e83c1ddbe5c1a53220a45ae.jpg"/>
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