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IETF variant of BSD-3-Clause license #2529

Open xsuchy opened 1 month ago

xsuchy commented 1 month ago

During Fedora License review https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/533 we found a license that is used in net-snmp package: https://github.com/net-snmp/net-snmp/blob/master/COPYING#L320 This license is very close to BSD-3-Clause but the third clause is:

*  Neither the name of Internet Society, IETF or IETF Trust, nor the
names of specific contributors, may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission.

Should we add this as a markup change to BSD-3-Clause or assign a new id?

Full text of the license:

Copyright (c) 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as authors of
the code.  All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are
met:

*  Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.

*  Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.

*  Neither the name of Internet Society, IETF or IETF Trust, nor the
names of specific contributors, may be used to endorse or promote
products derived from this software without specific prior written
permission.

THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS
IS'' AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT OWNER
OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL,
EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO,
PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR
PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING
NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS
SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
karsten-klein commented 1 month ago

{metæffekt} Universe canonical name: BSD 3-Clause License (copyright holder variant) short name: BSD-3-Clause-copyright-holder markers: Do Not Promote Marker, General Terms Matches Marker category: BSD OSI status: none

ScanCode matched id: bsd-new

Comment Should be matched with SPDX as BSD-3-Clause. In our understanding the variation does not change the meaning of the license.