New license request: SOFA [SPDX-Online-Tools]

[cxwx]

1. License Name: SOFA Software License
2. Short identifier: SOFA
3. License Author or steward: IAU SOFA Center
4. Comments: The copyright of the SOFA Software belongs to the Standards Of Fundamental Astronomy Board of the International Astronomical Union.
5. License Request Url: http://tools.spdx.org/app/license_requests/420
6. URL(s): http://www.iausofa.org/tandc.html
7. OSI Status: Unknown
8. Example Projects: http://www.iausofa.org/

[karsten-klein]

{metæffekt} Universe
canonical name: SOFA Software License
short name: SOFA
markers: No Warranty Marker, Ownership Marker
category: SOFA Software License
OSI status: none

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matched id: proprietary-license

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[Pizza-Ria]

+1 to add.

[jlovejoy]

discussed on 4/24 legal call: accepted, meets guidelines

License text on website is not necessarily indicative of what is used on actual files, so @swinslow pulled the text format used in products, so we will use that as guidance for what specifically to add in terms of start/end of license text.

[swinslow]

Text to use (without the ** and ====== markers), taken from sample of their software distribution; "NOTICE TO USER" near the top should be made optional, and copyright text tagged with <copyrightText> at the top:

**  Copyright (C) 2023
**  Standards of Fundamental Astronomy Board
**  of the International Astronomical Union.
**
**  =====================
**  SOFA Software License
**  =====================
**
**  NOTICE TO USER:
**
**  BY USING THIS SOFTWARE YOU ACCEPT THE FOLLOWING SIX TERMS AND
**  CONDITIONS WHICH APPLY TO ITS USE.
**
**  1. The Software is owned by the IAU SOFA Board ("SOFA").
**
**  2. Permission is granted to anyone to use the SOFA software for any
**     purpose, including commercial applications, free of charge and
**     without payment of royalties, subject to the conditions and
**     restrictions listed below.
**
**  3. You (the user) may copy and distribute SOFA source code to others,
**     and use and adapt its code and algorithms in your own software,
**     on a world-wide, royalty-free basis.  That portion of your
**     distribution that does not consist of intact and unchanged copies
**     of SOFA source code files is a "derived work" that must comply
**     with the following requirements:
**
**     a) Your work shall be marked or carry a statement that it
**        (i) uses routines and computations derived by you from
**        software provided by SOFA under license to you; and
**        (ii) does not itself constitute software provided by and/or
**        endorsed by SOFA.
**
**     b) The source code of your derived work must contain descriptions
**        of how the derived work is based upon, contains and/or differs
**        from the original SOFA software.
**
**     c) The names of all routines in your derived work shall not
**        include the prefix "iau" or "sofa" or trivial modifications
**        thereof such as changes of case.
**
**     d) The origin of the SOFA components of your derived work must
**        not be misrepresented;  you must not claim that you wrote the
**        original software, nor file a patent application for SOFA
**        software or algorithms embedded in the SOFA software.
**
**     e) These requirements must be reproduced intact in any source
**        distribution and shall apply to anyone to whom you have
**        granted a further right to modify the source code of your
**        derived work.
**
**     Note that, as originally distributed, the SOFA software is
**     intended to be a definitive implementation of the IAU standards,
**     and consequently third-party modifications are discouraged.  All
**     variations, no matter how minor, must be explicitly marked as
**     such, as explained above.
**
**  4. You shall not cause the SOFA software to be brought into
**     disrepute, either by misuse, or use for inappropriate tasks, or
**     by inappropriate modification.
**
**  5. The SOFA software is provided "as is" and SOFA makes no warranty
**     as to its use or performance.   SOFA does not and cannot warrant
**     the performance or results which the user may obtain by using the
**     SOFA software.  SOFA makes no warranties, express or implied, as
**     to non-infringement of third party rights, merchantability, or
**     fitness for any particular purpose.  In no event will SOFA be
**     liable to the user for any consequential, incidental, or special
**     damages, including any lost profits or lost savings, even if a
**     SOFA representative has been advised of such damages, or for any
**     claim by any third party.
**
**  6. The provision of any version of the SOFA software under the terms
**     and conditions specified herein does not imply that future
**     versions will also be made available under the same terms and
**     conditions.
*
**  In any published work or commercial product which uses the SOFA
**  software directly, acknowledgement (see www.iausofa.org) is
**  appreciated.
**
**  Correspondence concerning SOFA software should be addressed as
**  follows:
**
**      By email:  sofa@ukho.gov.uk
**      By post:   IAU SOFA Center
**                 HM Nautical Almanac Office
**                 UK Hydrographic Office
**                 Admiralty Way, Taunton
**                 Somerset, TA1 2DN
**                 United Kingdom