Track forbidden/permission granted for major brands in data file

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Discussed in #11269

^{Originally posted by @jrhaberland June 18, 2024}
I'm pretty sure this doesn't exist in the repository as I've looked pretty thoroughly for it. I feel like there should be some place that keeps a log of the companies that have given simple-icons permission to use their icons.

If it were to be made it should store the following:

• Name of company
• Date permission was granted
• A copy of the email that gave said permission
• Link to related issues and or PRs
• Maybe a list of all the icons related with the company

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Kinda piggybacking off of #9999, a _data/permissions.json file or similar would be nice to track explicitly forbidden brands or places were permission has been granted. I'm thinking something like the following:

[
  {
    "brand": "General Motors",
    "status": "approved", // or "denied" or "forbidden"
    "related": [8837, 3984], // list of related issues/PRs
    "context": [
      { type: "comment", content: "https://github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons/pull/11150#issuecomment-2174356643" }
    ],
  },
  // ...
]

[jrhaberland]

Maybe could add functionality to take and use that to create a regex that can be used with the auto closer bot github action.

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Yep that's the idea of #9999.

[jrhaberland]

This could also be a good way to test one of the different ways of changing the scheming of the json files as discussed in #9368