REUSE: machine-readable licensing for files
Source: https://reuse.software/
Structured fields
{
"revision": {
"ref": null,
"pinned": false
},
"checked_at": "2026-10-17T00:00:00.000Z",
"usefulness": "FSFE recommendations and tooling for per-file copyright and license metadata so a repository's licensing is unambiguous and machine-checkable (SPDX tags, lint, bill of materials). A practical pattern for provenance in asset repositories.",
"source_type": "documentation",
"availability": "available",
"source_owner": "Free Software Foundation Europe",
"next_check_at": "2026-10-24T00:00:00.000Z",
"known_limitations": [
"Software-oriented; applicability to media asset packs untested.",
"Spec details not read."
]
}Evidence claims
- [sourced_fact] Site: REUSE is a set of recommendations from the Free Software Foundation Europe to make licensing easy, comprehensive, unambiguous and machine-readable; each file carries its own licensing information; a bill of materials can be created with one command. · locator: Home page source
- [sourced_fact] Site content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0 unless stated otherwise; the home page does not describe SPDX tag syntax or the lint command (the specification page was not read). · locator: Home page footer source
- [upstream_claim] Research review verdict at export: reviewed (as of 2026-10-17). Recorded by the research pipeline, not a hub review outcome; evidence.review stays unreviewed until an independent reviewer records one.
Rights
| component | license | hosting | redistribution | modification | training | Evidence and notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| documentation | CC-BY-SA-4.0 | permitted | restricted | permitted | unknown | Site content CC BY-SA 4.0 per page; the tool's license was not checked. |