Consider REUSE specifications developed by FSFE

[peacekeeper]

I have been contacted via e-mail by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE). They are proposing that we adopt the REUSE specifications developed by the FSFE. They have shared the following links related to this:

• https://download.fsfe.org/NGI0/
• https://reuse.software/

They have also shared the following document:

FSFE - 1 - Best Practices for Software Licensing.pdf

[peacekeeper]

I have now received a "Licensing Review Report" from the FSFE regarding this and related repositories.

The recommended actions are:

1. Please add the copyright and licensing information to each plain text file in your repository that do not currently have a comment header.
2. You may wish to place certain files that can be considered “insignificant” into the “public domain.

See the report for details:

FSFE Licensing Review Report (universal did resolver) .pdf

[peacekeeper]

We reviewed this on the 14 Jul 2021 Universal Resolver Work Item Call:

• Regarding recommended action 1, we like the idea and may apply this at some point.
• Regarding recommended action 2, we don't see a lot of benefit, since the entire repository is already covered by the permissive Apache 2.0 license, therefore we are not likely to apply this.

[peacekeeper]

We discussed this again on the 06 Oct 2021 Universal Resolver Work Item Call and decided to leave the issue open. We believe adding copyright/license information to each file indeed has some advantages.