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74 linhas
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<html newsdate="2017-12-19">
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<version>1</version>
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<title>FSFE releases refreshed set of REUSE practices and a tool to help developers comply</title>
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<body>
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<h1>FSFE releases refreshed set of REUSE practices and a tool to help developers comply</h1>
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<p>
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The REUSE Initiative has received an updated set of practices that simplify
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the process of declaring copyright and licence information. To help
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facilitate developers with updating their projects, the FSFE has also
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published a tool that verifies whether a project is compliant.
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</p>
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<div class="captioned" style="width:80%; margin: 1.5em auto;">
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<a href="https://reuse.software/">
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<img src="https://pics.fsfe.org/uploads/big/a59a3b49fcf6734b8647e05adb2f1612.png" />
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</a>
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</div>
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<p>
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Copyright and licensing is difficult. Finding out the exact copyright and
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licence of a piece of code is often times more difficult than it should be.
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Missing or scattered licence information makes it very labour-intensive to
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verify whether you can legally use a piece of code. For a thorough legal
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review, you have to manually check every file for licence information, and
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every file has a different way of declaring its copyright and licence.
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</p>
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<p>
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But what if we could automate this? That is what
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the <a href="https://reuse.software/">REUSE Initiative</a> postulates. By
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defining a standard for copyright and licence declaration, the legal process
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of complying with licences becomes a lot easier. Simply include a standard,
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computer-readable header tag to every file, and extracting the licence
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information should be as simple as running a parser.
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Earlier in October, we released a set of practices towards that end. Now,
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we have <a href="https://reuse.software/practices/2.0/">updated those
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practices</a> to streamline them some. To accompany the streamlined
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changes, we have published
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<a href="https://git.fsfe.org/reuse/reuse">a tool</a> for developers to
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check whether they comply with our recommendations.
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</p>
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<p>
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The primary change between the old version and the new is that you no longer
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need to declare two tags; only one. 'License-Filename' has been deprecated,
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and instead its functionality has been rolled into
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'SPDX-License-Identifier'. This is more in line with existing projects, and
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is less effort to boot.
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</p>
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<p>
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Complying with the REUSE recommendations is very simple. Why not give it a
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spin? We would love to hear from you.
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</p>
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</body>
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<tags>
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<tag key="front-page"/>
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<tag key="reuse"/>
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</tags>
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<author id="carmenbianca" />
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</html>
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