Hi REUSE mailing list,

Today we have released v3.1.0a1 of the REUSE tool. This is an alpha release which contains the new REUSE.toml functionality that replaces .reuse/dep5 (which is soft-deprecated). The purpose of the alpha release is to gather feedback on REUSE.toml. Specifically:

- Does REUSE.toml solve real problems? - Does .reuse/dep5 solve any problems that REUSE.toml doesn't? - Are there any problems that REUSE.toml doesn't solve, but could solve? - Is REUSE.toml sufficiently documented?

The main purpose of REUSE.toml is to disambiguate .reuse/dep5 scenarios as written in https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool/issues/779: if a file has a header and is also covered by .reuse/dep5, and the two sources of information disagree about the licence, which licence applies?

Because this is an alpha release, the accompanying documentation is not yet easily discoverable, but it is (in the process of being) written. Below some links, and I have also attached some documents for ease of reading.

- The new REUSE Specification v3.2 https://reuse.software/spec-3.2/ - An updated FAQ (under construction) https://github.com/carmenbianca/reuse-website/blob/3.2-improvements/site/content/en/faq.md - The tool documentation https://reuse.readthedocs.io/en/v3.1.0a1/ - New man pages https://reuse.readthedocs.io/en/v3.1.0a1/man/index.html - The change log https://reuse.readthedocs.io/en/v3.1.0a1/history.html - The alpha release on PyPI https://pypi.org/project/reuse/3.1.0a1/

If you have time to check it out, we would love to receive your feedback. You can write to this mailing list, to the reuse-tool[1] repository for tool-related issues, and to the reuse-website[2] repository for spec/FAQ/documentation-related issues.

Yours with kindness, Carmen

[1]: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-tool [2]: https://github.com/fsfe/reuse-website