[Idpy-board] Fwd: Re: IdentityPython Board approval to move ahead with Commons Conservancy

Hi Heather, this is not just our opinion, but something that is an industry and community standard for legal compliance these days. When companies like Siemens, Samsung or Honeywell use some code in one of the hundreds or thousands of devices and systems in their product line, they need to be able to provide the correct license and a download of the exact version. This means machine readability too. To quote from https://reuse.software/practices/2.0/ : Scroll to the section "2. Include a copyright notice and license in each file"... "Source code files are often reused across multiple projects, taken from their origin and repurposed, or otherwise end up in repositories where they are separate from its origin. You should therefore ensure that all files in your project have a comment header that convey that file’s copyright and license information: Who are the copyright holders and under which license(s) do they release the file? It is highly recommended that you keep the format of these headers consistent across your files. It is important, however, that you do not remove any information from headers in files of which you are not the sole author. You must convey the license information of your source code file in a standardised way, so that computers can interpret it. You can do this with an SPDX-License-Identifier tag followed by an SPDX expression defined by the SPDX specifications." (the text goes on for a while after this, to clarify the point but this is the basic gist of it) There is a nice Python tool to check: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool I hope this makes sense -- Support NLnet, the open internet and open source with just 5 minutes of your time. Make a difference today. Visit: https://nlnet.nl/help (English) https://nlnet.nl/ayuda (Espanol) -- Michiel Leenaars Director of Strategy NLnet Foundation Science Park 400 (Matrix 2) 1098 XH Amsterdam The Netherlands https://nlnet.nl sip/xmpp: michiel [@t] nlnet.nl --------------- 'If you want the Internet to grow strong, safe and free, but you don't know how to help, contribute to NLNet: they do know and care." Giorgio Maone, NoScript Interested what Richard Stallman, Karsten Nohl, Andy Tanenbaum and many others have to say about what NLnet helped them do for you? Feel your wallet tingling already? Check out: https://nlnet.nl/donating/quotes.html