Add W3C software and document license (2023-01-01) #1169
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Whilst previous W3C licenses are in the SPDX repository, the 2023-01-01 license version was not yet, there's an open pull request for that here: spdx/license-list-XML#2269
As all the W3C groups tend to use GitHub for specification work, being able to select from the "Add a license" dropdown the latest W3C license is quite useful. A code-search for W3C in license files showed 49k code matches and 4k repositories.
The link
https://spdx.org/spdx-license-list/request-new-license
appears to be broken, so I sent a PR to the spdx repository, hopefully that's the correct process.The previous version of this license is on the OSI's license list, the current version is not (I suspect just because it's not been updated?) https://opensource.org/license/w3c/ — I have tried to reach out to appropriate people at the W3C to follow the OSI's fairly lengthy process for updating their license.