Does GitHub have any support for FSFE's REUSE for managing licensing information

[tristan957]

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The Free Software Foundation Europe created a fairly nice specification called REUSE.

Copyright and licensing is difficult, especially when reusing software from different projects that are released under various different licenses. REUSE was started by the Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) 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, but they also make it easier for a computer to understand how your project is licensed.

It is becoming somewhat common in projects, one example being cURL which is hosted here on GitHub. cURL seems to work around GitHub's lack of support through just mirroring the license information in the root of the repository. https://github.com/curl/curl/blob/master/COPYING

I think the answer to my question is no, but I am wondering if it is on GitHub's roadmap. At least one other forge software supports REUSE (SourceHut).

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Or someone from GitHub could just reply since I provided all necessary information 🤷

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I personally find the lack of attention on this issue very annoying. GitHub is supposed to be a home of free of open source software, but can't support those of us that are trying to use a standard licensing layout to make licensing easy to understand when generating bills of material, etc.

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Duplicate of #15033

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