public domain dedication variants in the wild (found in Fedora)

[Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx>]

    Hi SPDX-legal
      
      Some time ago, I raised the issue of the possibility of finding a
      proliferation of "public domain "dedication" texts in the course
      of Fedora reviewing package license info to adopt SPDX ids. Please
      see https://lists.spdx.org/g/Spdx-legal/topic/93048752#3202 for
      the background
      
      Fedora has been "collecting" such texts here
https://gitlab.com/fedora/legal/fedora-license-data/-/blob/main/public-domain-text.txt
      
      and using a specific LicenseRef-Fedora-Public-Domain as a sort of
      placeholder SPDX id.
      
      The idea being, no assessment of how many of these types of
      dedications exist has been collected in one place in order for the
      SPDX-legal community to assess. 
      
      I estimate that Fedora has collected about 48 variations of public
      domain statements that are not specifically identified on the SPDX
      License List.  I'm going to assume many of these packages also
      show up in other major distros.
      
      I'd like to raise the conversation as to:
      1) Should each unique entry be added to the SPDX License List as a
      standalone entry (like normal, in that one SPDX license id
      represents a specific, identifiable license/set of text)?
      2) Should SPDX consider a different approach by defining one SPDX
      id to represent any one of a collection of specifically identified
      and vetted texts?
      
      I'd love to hear your yes or no answer to these questions and why
      you answered as such :)
      
      Also see for background:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/update-existing-packages/#_updating_existing_packages_callaway_short_name_categories
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/update-existing-packages/#_public_domain
      
      
      We likely won't have time to discuss this on Thursday's call, but
      I wanted to start the discussion here and perhaps we can dedicate
      some time at an upcoming meeting.
      
      Thanks,
      Jilayne
      
      (copying Fedora-legal for awareness)
    
  

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