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Add BSD-Attribution-HPND-disclaimer to allowed licences

License Review Request

License name

BSD with Attribution and HPND disclaimer

Text of license

https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd/blob/master/COPYING

Package name and link to source

cyrus-imapd https://github.com/cyrusimap/cyrus-imapd

Is this license on the SPDX License List?

yes https://spdx.org/licenses/BSD-Attribution-HPND-disclaimer.html

Reason for license review

The current License: field contains just "BSD" string:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/cyrus-imapd/blob/881fe11b48d04323219dc1c7b94bcd47e8bd4254/f/cyrus-imapd.spec#_26

I used 'SPDX License Diff' browser plugin and it matched it with 78% as the BSD-Attribution-HPND-disclaimer, but it isn't in the list of Allowed/Not-allowed licenses (https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/legal/allowed-licenses/).

Would need your help to check whether this license is really it or isn't already covered by some of the allowed licenses. If not, add it to the list of allowed licenses or advise which of the other BSD-related ones to use.

Thanks!