[Feature]: [FRSM-16] Does the software metadata record include licensing information?

[karacolada]

D5.2 p21+p31

Detailed Description

It is important for licensing information to be on the publicly searchable and accessible metadata record.

Domain-agnostic comments

This can be defined in different ways, e.g. the “Rights” field in the DOI metadata.

CESSDA comments

CESSDA guidance on licence information is part of the guidelines on Standard Git Repository Contents.

Context

R1.1: Software is given a clear and accessible licence.

Possible Implementation

domain-agnostic

requirements	software identifier
method	Check if the software identifier or the metadata record referenced by it includes licensing information.
essential	The identifier or metadata record includes licensing and copyright information.	✅
important	n/a
useful	The software licensing information is in SPDX format, or other machine-readable form.	✅

CESSDA

requirements	software identifier
method	Check for the presence of licence information in the Zenodo repository and source code deposited in the repository.
essential	Licensing information is included in the Zenodo record and in a LICENSE.txt file included in the root directory of the source code deposited in Zenodo.
important	n/a
useful	n/a

[karacolada]

Extend license evaluator:

fuji/fuji_server/evaluators/fair_evaluator_license.py

Line 16 in 1778e73

class FAIREvaluatorLicense(FAIREvaluator):