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Adopt REUSE formalization for licenses specification #2015

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Just discovered for myself (better later than never) the https://reuse.software/ which formalizes how (software) projects should include license and copyright terms. They even used to support DEP-5 (Debian way) but deprecated. Overall it looks like very handy for

  • this repository itself
  • other components of BIDS project
  • and also to adopt for BIDS datasets since ATM we do not even allow for multiple licenses (and we pretty much need that whenever there is some code/ included) to be specified - we just have License for the dataset.

One route for adoption for BIDS datasets could be

  • adopt REUSE.toml
  • add its validation to validator
  • We could make "License" field really be the one for "data portion of the dataset" and validate that it corresponds to the one in REUSE.toml .
  • Formalize OPTIONAL presence of LICENSES/ folder as the one for REUSE

WDYT?

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