New license request: ssh-keyscan [SPDX-Online-Tools]

[beldmit]

1. License Name: -
2. Short identifier: ssh-keyscan
3. License Author or steward: David Mazieres dm@lcs.mit.edu
4. Comments: This license is used in Fedora and was found during license review. See more details here: https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/281
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/271
6. URL(s): https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/LICENCE#L82
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://openssh.com

[beldmit]

@jlovejoy Sorry I don't understand what are the steps expected from my side.

[Pizza-Ria]

This feels less like a license ask and more like an umbrella under which to park a few BSD variants and maybe some other similarly free licenses. Why not just delineate each license contained in https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/blob/master/LICENCE#L82 separately with the appropriate identifier or request a license-id for anything odd and not already in SPDX?

[jlovejoy]

Sorry I don't understand what are the steps expected from my side.

sorry @beldmit - just using "assigned" to indicate who submitted the license!

[jlovejoy]

license text:

Copyright 1995, 1996 by David Mazieres <dm@lcs.mit.edu>.

Modification and redistribution in source and binary forms is
permitted provided that due credit is given to the author and the
OpenBSD project by leaving this copyright notice intact.

[jlovejoy]

+1 to add as it does not match anything on the SPDX License list and is used in Fedora in a package that is likely used in many other places

[jlovejoy]

@Pizza-Ria - see https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/278#note_1501510113 for more on the contents of the entire license file

[swinslow]

Also +1 to add, I don't see any matches to anything currently on the list; +1 to add as a simple permissive license.

[swinslow]

Good with ssh-keyscan as ID and "ssh-keyscan License" as the name, this reference in the OpenSSH distro appears to be the primary place where I'm finding this license text used based on a quick search.

[jlovejoy]

License Inclusion Decision

Decision:

• approved
• not approved

Name

ssh-keyscan License

License ID

ssh-keyscan

XML markup

none

Notes:

none

Next steps

If the license has been accepted, please follow the accepted-license process to create the PR.

@beldmit can you create the PR now that it's been accepted?

[beldmit]

Yes, I will do it but not earlier than next Friday

[xsuchy]

I drafted the PR for you.