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Add (hidden) RFC license

Open LeChasseur opened this issue 1 year ago • 1 comments

The database already contains LicenseRef-scancode-ietf . This seems to be the license for much IETF content but there are sometimes other licenses as well. Example: Punicode (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3492) seems to be under LicenseRef-scancode-ietf which is indicated on the last page (https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3492#page-35). This is not a FOSS license. However, there is another license that covers the sample code: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3492#page-22 ... Disclaimer and license

Regarding this entire document or any portion of it (including the pseudocode and C code), the author makes no guarantees and is not responsible for any damage resulting from its use. The author grants irrevocable permission to anyone to use, modify, and distribute it in any way that does not diminish the rights of anyone else to use, modify, and distribute it, provided that redistributed derivative works do not contain misleading author or version information. Derivative works need not be licensed under similar terms. ... I haven't found an identifier for it. LicenseRef-scancode-ietf-rfc3492 might be suitable.

LeChasseur avatar Sep 05 '24 10:09 LeChasseur