Establishes a standard, machine-readable format for debian/copyright files within Debian packages to facilitate automated checking and reporting of licenses for packages and sets of packages. This specification was originally drafted as DEP-5.
We make licensing easy for humans and machines alike. REUSE solves a fundamental issue that Free Software licensing has at the very source. Adopting our recommendations is as easy as one-two-three!
Published: 2016. tl;dr: Open licensing works when you strike a healthy balance between obligations and reuse.