Week 4

Meeting 10

(July 05th, 2022)

GSoC 2022 Project Discussions - REUSE

Attendees

• Gaurav Mishra
• Shaheem Azmal M MD
• Nicolas Toussaint
• Rohit Pandey

Discussions/Updates

• Issue #1513
  • We discussed approach for Support the SPDX-FileCopyrightText keyword in the copyright agent.
  • To correctly identify SPDX-FileCopyrightText, regex needs to be improved.
  • Reso agent will copy the findings of Copyright agent from the .license file to the associated file.
  • To make testing easier, mentors taught the CLI method.
• REUSE copyright and licensing standard Implementation
  • Current REUSE status
    • When running reuse lint, the result is as follows:

    Files with copyright information: 4152 / 4360
    Files with license information: 3723 / 4360
  • Mentors reviewed pull request #2248 and suggested few changes.
  • Discussed the issue of bad licenses/missing licenses coming from testdata files in resue tool. Mentors suggested to raise a issue in reuse github repository.
  • Few doubts were cleared regarding the comment formatting of the files.

Meeting 11

(July 07th, 2022)

GSoC 2022 weekly update

Attendees

• Gaurav Mishra
• Shaheem Azmal M MD
• Kaushlendra Pratap
• Ayush Bhardwaj
• Shruti Agarwal
• Vasudev Maduri
• Sushant Kumar
• Rohit Pandey
• Feng Wenhan
• Soham Banerjee
• Samuel Dushimimana
• Thanvi Lahari Pendyala

Discussions/Updates

• Implemented REUSE standard in more files.
• Learned about regular expressions.
• During the implementation of the REUSE.software standard, I added the license and copyright information to testdata files through dep5. However, reuse tool still shows missing/bad licensing information from testdata files. I have added an issue to fsfe/reuse-tool for the solution to this.

Conclusion and Further Plans

• I will implement REUSE copyright and licensing information on more files
• We will discuss a solution to the issue of testdata file at our next project meeting.
• I will work on the SPDX-FileCopyrightText keyword in the copyright agent this week.