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New license request: LPD-document [SPDX-Online-Tools] #2223

Closed richardfontana closed 8 months ago

richardfontana commented 11 months ago

1. License Name: ScanCode calls it "Peter Deutsch Document License" 2. Short identifier: LPD-document 3. License Author or steward: L. Peter Deutsch, possibly 4. Comments: This is a license that seems to have originally appeared in RFCs in the 1990s. It should be understood as granting permissions for text documents comparable in scope to FOSS licenses. A minor variant of this license (adding one sentence that does not narrow its permissions) has been found covering files in one Fedora Linux package. Since this is likely the original version, I want to submit this one first. 5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/314 6. URL(s): https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/peter-deutsch-document.html, https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt 7. OSI Status: Not Submitted 8. Example Projects: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt (not a project, I know)

jlovejoy commented 11 months ago

@richardfontana - to make sure I understand, this license has NOT been found in Fedora but sounds like you are submitting due to legacy in terms of having ben used prior?

richardfontana commented 11 months ago

@jlovejoy currently, I know of one Fedora package that includes this license with a sentence added at the end ("Distribution of this document is unlimited") that is not in this (presumed) original version. However, this original version appears in RFC documents which separately contain the sentence "Distribution of this memo is unlimited." You can see this here: https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1952.txt - I'm excerpting the beginning of the document:

Status of This Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  This memo
   does not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of
   this memo is unlimited.

IESG Note:

   The IESG takes no position on the validity of any Intellectual
   Property Rights statements contained in this document.

Notices

   Copyright (c) 1996 L. Peter Deutsch

   Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document for any
   purpose and without charge, including translations into other
   languages and incorporation into compilations, provided that the
   copyright notice and this notice are preserved, and that any
   substantive changes or deletions from the original are clearly
   marked.

What is found in a Fedora package, and currently the subject of #2224, is this license:

Copyright (c) Yann Collet

Permission is granted to copy and distribute this document for any purpose and without charge, including translations into other languages and incorporation into compilations, provided that the copyright notice and this notice are preserved, and that any substantive changes or deletions from the original are clearly marked. Distribution of this document is unlimited.

It seems fairly likely to me that the "original" license must be in some Fedora packages as well but I haven't encountered it yet.

swinslow commented 8 months ago

Discussed on legal team call 2024-01-11, consensus to treat this as equivalent to https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/issues/2224 with the final sentence from that one being optional.

ID: LPD-document

Name: LPD Documentation License