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Re: Follow REUSE best practices for licensing/copyright

From: Daniel Stenberg via curl-library <curl-library_at_lists.haxx.se>
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 08:31:41 +0200 (CEST)

On Mon, 13 Jun 2022, Max Mehl via curl-library wrote:

> 1. Documentation: is there an onboarding document or so for new
> contributors where the licensing/copyright shall be explained, and
> what this REUSE check means?

This is still a gap in the documentation I think. Perhaps we should extend
this section: https://curl.se/dev/contribute.html#license-and-copyright (which
is the docs/CONTRIBUTE.md file in the repo).

> 2. REUSE badge: I invite curl to register with the REUSE API and get a
> badge to be added to the README to demonstrate that you care about proper
> licensing and copyright communication. It's only a matter of max. 3
> minutes: https://api.reuse.software/register

I question the value and use of these badges, but here it is:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/9004

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