New license request: Kevlin-Henney [SPDX-Online-Tools]

[lzaoral]

1. License Name: Kevlin Henney License
2. Short identifier: Kevlin-Henney
3. License Author or steward: Kevlin Henney
4. Comments: It is used in Fedora and this license was found during license review: https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/371
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/309
6. URL(s): https://github.com/mruby/mruby/blob/83d12f8d52522cdb7c8cc46fad34821359f453e6/mrbgems/mruby-dir/src/Win/dirent.c#L127-L140
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://github.com/mruby/mruby/blob/master/mrbgems/mruby-dir/src/Win/dirent.c

[jlovejoy]

so, this is yet another HPND-ish variant. It's most like https://spdx.org/licenses/HPND-sell-regexpr.html in terms of ordering of the grant/without fee part, but omits "sell" and has a different notice statement.
Given the "sell" difference, I don't think we could add markup there.

also similar to https://spdx.org/licenses/HPND-Pbmplus.html but varies the order of hereby granted/without fee and has a slightly different notice clause:

HPND-Pbmplus uses: "provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation."

where this variant has: "provided
that this copyright and permissions notice appear in all copies and
derivatives."

I'm not sure I would feel comfortable accommodating this in HPND-Pbmplus since it is a bit different condition. Which would mean adding as a new license...

Perhaps HPND-Henney?

What do others think?

[pombredanne]

FWIW, we have tracked this as kevlin-henney in ScanCode for a long time (Since 2017). See https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/kevlin-henney.html

It would be really nice if SPDX could consider reusing the same identifier here, e.g., the suggested Kevlin-Henney rather than inventing a new one HPND-Henney to avoid unnecessary churn..

[jlovejoy]

@pombredanne - we have been trying to use HPND to indicate it's related as we have been finding to many variants on this recently with Fedora's adoption. While I hear you on alignment of ids, we also need to consider naming that is helpful to the larger ecosystem in terms of identification/familiarity (and spend a fair amount of time on these conversations)

[jlovejoy]

License Inclusion Decision

Decision:

• approved
• not approved

Name

Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - Kevlin Henney variant

License ID

HPND- Kevlin-Henney

XML markup

none

Notes:

This license is similar to HPND-Pbmplus but varies the order of hereby granted/without fee and has a different notice clause.

Next steps

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

[jlovejoy]

@lzaoral - sorry this took so long! Now that we have a decision, can you prepare a PR?

[lzaoral]

@xsuchy, thank you for preparing the PR!