New license request: HPND-merchantability-variant

[siddhesh]

1. License Name: Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - Christian Groessler
2. Short identifier: HPND-Christian-Groessler
3. License Author or steward: Unknown
4. Comments: This license is used in Fedora through newlib and was found during license review:

https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/issues/489
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/354
6. URL(s): https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=newlib/libc/misc/fini.c;hb=HEAD
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin

[karsten-klein]

ScanCode
reference id: codesourcery-2004
matched id: codesourcery-2004

{metæffekt} Universe
canonical name: CodeSourcery 2004
short name: CodeSourcery-2004
Open CoDE similar license id: codesourcery-2004
Markers: No Warranty Marker

[jlovejoy]

@karsten-klein - the references you are adding are interesting, but I'm not sure if you are implying you think this license should be added to the SPDX License List? If so, could you say so explicitly? :) (that would be really helpful for showing approval from various people) Thanks!

[jlovejoy]

license text for reference:

• Copyright (C) 2004 Christian Groessler chris@groessler.org
• Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this file
• for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
• the above copyright notice and this notice appears in all
• copies.
• This file is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
• warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

@siddhesh - I notice that the license text you copied for the submission has the copyright for Christian Groessler, but the link to the license in newlib has Code Sourcery in the copyright. The copyright notice does not matter for purposes of matching the license, but for naming purposes and origin, how/where did you find the Christian Groessler notice?

[jlovejoy]

in any case +1 to add, as I cannot find anything that this matches to or could match to.

[karsten-klein]

@karsten-klein - the references you are adding are interesting, but I'm not sure if you are implying you think this license should be added to the SPDX License List? If so, could you say so explicitly? :) (that would be really helpful for showing approval from various people) Thanks!

I will express this better next time I add details. The previous details were simply meant to provide more details to support a decision. Unfortunately, I couldn't make to the meeting yesterday. I think we should have a chat regarding the approach, we have applied recently.

[BrianInglis]

Groessler is credited with more changes:

$ grep -R Groessler
ChangeLog:2005-08-17  Christian Groessler  <chris@groessler.org>
include/coff/ChangeLog-9103:2003-07-14  Christian Groessler  <chris@groessler.org>
include/coff/ChangeLog-9103:2001-10-26  Christian Groessler  <cpg@aladdin.de>
newlib/ChangeLog-2015:2007-06-06  Christian Groessler  <chris@groessler.org>
newlib/ChangeLog-2015:2007-06-05  Christian Groessler  <chris@groessler.org>
newlib/ChangeLog-2015:2004-12-17  Christian Groessler  <chris@groessler.org>
newlib/ChangeLog-2015:2003-02-18  Christian Groessler  <chris@groessler.org>
newlib/libc/machine/z8k/memcmp.S: * Copyright (C) 2004 Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
newlib/libc/machine/z8k/memcpy.S: * Copyright (C) 2004 Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
newlib/libc/machine/z8k/memmove.S: * Copyright (C) 2004 Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>
newlib/libc/machine/z8k/memset.S: * Copyright (C) 2004 Christian Groessler <chris@groessler.org>

but licences and claims copyright only in the last four files above, and his licence does not appear elsewhere in the repo.

CodeSourcery licences and copyrights appear in COPYING.LIBGLOSS and copyrights in some libgloss targets and elsewhere:

$ grep -R CodeSourcery
ChangeLog:      * COPYING.LIBGLOSS: Add National Semiconductor and CodeSourcery
COPYING.LIBGLOSS:(15) - CodeSourcery, Inc. (tic6x-* targets)
COPYING.LIBGLOSS:Copyright (c) 2010 CodeSourcery, Inc.
COPYING.LIBGLOSS:    * Neither the name of CodeSourcery nor the
COPYING.LIBGLOSS:(22) CodeSourcery, Inc (csky-* targets)
COPYING.LIBGLOSS:Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
include/partition.h:   Contributed by CodeSourcery, LLC.
libgloss/csky/io-close.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-exit.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-fstat.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-gdb.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-gettimeofday.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-isatty.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-lseek.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-open.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-read.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-rename.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-stat.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-system.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-time.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-unlink.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io-write.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/csky/io.h: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/cf-crt0.S: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/cf-crt1.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/cf-exit.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/cf-hosted.S: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/cf-isrs.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/cf-isv.S: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/cf-sbrk.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/fido-handler.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery, Inc.
libgloss/m68k/fido-hosted.S: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/fido-_exit.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery, Inc.
libgloss/m68k/fido_profiling.h: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-close.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-exit.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-fstat.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-gdb.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-gettimeofday.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-isatty.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-lseek.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-open.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-read.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-rename.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-stat.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-system.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-time.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-unlink.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io-write.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/io.h: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/m68k/m68k-semi.txt:Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-close.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-exit.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-fstat.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-gdb.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-gettimeofday.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-isatty.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-lseek.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-open.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-read.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-rename.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-stat.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-system.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-time.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-unlink.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io-write.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/io.h: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/nios2/nios2-semi.txt:Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/tic6x/crt0.S:   Copyright (c) 2010 CodeSourcery, Inc.
libgloss/tic6x/crt0.S:    * Neither the name of CodeSourcery nor the
libgloss/tic6x/syscalls.c:/* Copyright (c) 2010 CodeSourcery, Inc.
libgloss/tic6x/syscalls.c:    * Neither the name of CodeSourcery nor the
libgloss/visium/io-gdb.c: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
libgloss/visium/io.h: * Copyright (c) 2006 CodeSourcery Inc
newlib/libc/machine/mips/machine/asm.h: * Copyright (C) 2009 CodeSourcery, LLC.
newlib/libc/machine/mips/machine/regdef.h: * Copyright (C) 2009 CodeSourcery, LLC.
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * Copyright (C) 2010 CodeSourcery, Inc.
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * Copyright (C) 2004 CodeSourcery, LLC
newlib/testsuite/newlib.stdlib/stdlib.exp:# Copyright (C) 2008 by CodeSourcery, Inc.  All rights reserved.

Best to contact Corinna Vinschen and/or Jeff Johnston at RedHat or via the ML about any discrepancies that may need cured.

[BrianInglis]

CodeSourcery uses various licences in the above files, but the only two using the same terms as Groessler are:

newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * Copyright (C) 2010 CodeSourcery, Inc.
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: *
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this file
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * the above copyright notice and this notice appears in all
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * copies.
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: *
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * This file is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
newlib/libc/misc/fini.c: */

newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * Copyright (C) 2004 CodeSourcery, LLC
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: *
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this file
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * the above copyright notice and this notice appears in all
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * copies.
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: *
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * This file is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: * warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
newlib/libc/misc/init.c: */

[siddhesh]

license text for reference:

* Copyright (C) 2004 Christian Groessler [chris@groessler.org](mailto:chris@groessler.org)

* Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this file

* for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that

* the above copyright notice and this notice appears in all

* copies.

* This file is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied

* warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

@siddhesh - I notice that the license text you copied for the submission has the copyright for Christian Groessler, but the link to the license in newlib has Code Sourcery in the copyright. The copyright notice does not matter for purposes of matching the license, but for naming purposes and origin, how/where did you find the Christian Groessler notice?

Oops, sorry, looking at my bash history, apparently I picked up the license text from memmove.S (that @BrianInglis pointed out) and linked to fini.c, which scancode (or my post-processing script) put alongside memmove.S:

https://sourceware.org/git/?p=newlib-cygwin.git;a=blob;f=newlib/libc/machine/z8k/memmove.S;hb=HEAD

[BrianInglis]

Also please note that CodeSourcery uses their own copyright with the same licence text for libc/misc/{init,fini}.c, also not mentioned in licecnse summaries COPYING.* so should the licence and abbr perhaps be renamed to a little more general phrase rather than duplicated for CS?

[jlovejoy]

to add, but need help with decision on name/id

[StefaniePors]

since the merchantability exclusion is specifically called out, how about:
License Name: Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - merchantability variant.
SPDX Identifier: HPND - merchantability variant

Alternatively:
License Name: Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - no implied warranty variant,
SPDX Identifier: HPND - no implied warranty variant
That obviously gets very long, but the differentiators are "weak"

[jlovejoy]

Thanks for weighing in @StefaniePors ! sounds like a good option for the name and id to me.

[jlovejoy]

License Inclusion Decision

Decision:

• approved
• not approved

Name

Historical Permission Notice and Disclaimer - merchantability variant

License ID

HPND-merchantability-variant

XML markup

none

Notes:

This is similar to the HPND grant and short disclaimer, but adds a specific disclaimer as to merchantability and fitness for a particularl purpose

Next steps

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