Go: x/pkgsite: recognize US Government public domain license

[yoursunny]

What is the URL of the page with the issue?

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/usnistgov/ndn-dpdk?tab=overview

What is your user agent?

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Screenshot

README not displayed due to license restrictions. See our license policy.

What did you do?

Visit the page.

What did you expect to see?

The README file and package documentation should be displayed.
Repository uses the US Government public domain license. It should be recognized and accepted as an open license.

What did you see instead?

README not displayed due to license restrictions. See our license policy.

[odeke-em]

Thank you for this report @yoursunny! Kindly cc-ing @julieqiu.

[julieqiu]

Thanks for reporting!

/cc @jba

[jba]

Do you have an official reference for that license? The standard NIST license, at https://www.nist.gov/topics/data/public-access-nist-research/copyright-fair-use-and-licensing-statements-srd-data-and#software, is not identical.

[yoursunny]

The standard NIST license, at https://www.nist.gov/topics/data/public-access-nist-research/copyright-fair-use-and-licensing-statements-srd-data-and#software

I discussed with the group. Please use the license text (starting with "This software") on this webpage.
I'll update the repository to match this license text.

[Pesa]

@jba any updates on this issue? Thanks.

[jba]

Just back from vacation; give me a day to see where we are. We do have approval for the license, it's just a matter of plugging it in.

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/249717 mentions this issue: go.mod: upgrade to latest version of licensecheck

[jba]

We're closer, but still not there. The contents of https://raw.githubusercontent.com/usnistgov/ndn-dpdk/b858ba750c5ada0684f218739f3b267def50a044/LICENSE.md is not close enough to the text in the blue box in https://www.nist.gov/topics/data/public-access-nist-research/copyright-fair-use-and-licensing-statements-srd-data-and#software to trigger a match.

[yoursunny]

I updated the license text, and it still does not match?

https://github.com/usnistgov/ndn-dpdk/blob/6815d5907174de7bae57daab140e6b00a01f9a95/LICENSE.md

https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/usnistgov/[email protected]?tab=overview

[jba]

It does, but we haven't deployed the necessary changes yet. Try again on Tuesday.

[gopherbot]

Change https://golang.org/cl/249817 mentions this issue: internal/licenses: add NIST