Machine-readable license and copyright information with REUSE

[Volker-Weissmann]

Feature or enhancement

Proposal:

Hello there,

REUSE is a standard that allows a project to specify license and copyright information in a machine-readable format (e.g. reuse lint --json tells you which file has which license and which copyright notice).

The RFC for the use of REUSE in ArchLinux gives a nice overview.

I would like to make CPython REUSE-compliant, by adding some comments, cleaning up some other comments, and adding a REUSE.toml .

I can do that on my own and create a PR, but before doing so, I would like to ask if there is Maintainer-interest in reviewing and merging such a PR.

Has this already been discussed elsewhere?

Not for CPython, only for other repos.

Links to previous discussion of this feature:

Probably not relevant because they weren't about CPython.

[picnixz]

I think this should be discussed on discuss.python.org first. You can reach a wider audience and this process may require a PEP (we required one for SBOM).