[REUSE] License folder hack?

[Lucas Lasota]

Dear REUSE people,

the FSFE is part of the the NGIO initiative, presenting REUSE for
projects which want to simplify their copyright and licensing notices.

One topic that has been quite recurrent among projects is the fact that
Git Hub expects a root level LICENSE file to be present in a repository,
whereas REUSE mandates putting the license files into the LICENSES
folder. Since Git Hub is quite important for those projects, they fear
implementing the REUSE specs and be tagged as unlicensed, which is
clearly a red flag for them.

One of the projects reached us with a question, with something that
seems to work. The project could have a LICENSE file at root and a
LICENSES folder? Kubernetes seems to be doing that:

https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes 

Although not technically REUSE compliant, it could be admitted as a
temporary hack?

Please share your thoughts.

Thank you very much

Lucas

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