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New license request: Unlicense-3rd-paragraph [SPDX-Online-Tools] #2583

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robert-scheck opened this issue Oct 9, 2024 · 3 comments
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1. License Name: Adapted from 3rd paragraph of Unlicense
2. Short identifier: Unlicense-3rd-paragraph
3. License Author or steward: Unknown
4. Comments: Used in Fedora and found during a license review, see https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/578 for details.
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/398
6. URL(s): https://github.com/seanmiddleditch/libtelnet/blob/develop/COPYING
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://github.com/seanmiddleditch/libtelnet

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robert-scheck commented Oct 9, 2024

Honestly, I don't know what the license name is (or should be) nor what a proper short identifier would be, given libtelnet upstream calls this "Public Domain" while @richardfontana referred to a derivative of Unlicense.

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To elaborate a bit, as I think SPDX-legal knows, Fedora has been using an umbrella LicenseRef to represent all sorts of bespoke public domain dedications, but has also been using existing SPDX identifiers for "standardized" instruments that are, essentially, public domain dedications or approximations thereof, as in the case of the Unlicense. In this case, we have a project that has made some minor textual changes to one paragraph of Unlicense, so we are wondering whether SPDX would want to assign an identifier for it much as it has given an identifier for the Unlicense itself.

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xsuchy commented Oct 14, 2024

Full text of license:

libtelnet is released to the public domain:

The author or authors of this code dedicate any and all copyright
interest in this code to the public domain. We make this dedication
for the benefit of the public at large and to the detriment of our
heirs and successors. We intend this dedication to be an overt act of
relinquishment in perpetuity of all present and future rights to this
code under copyright law.

@jlovejoy jlovejoy added this to the 3.27.0 milestone Nov 15, 2024
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