get listed on SPDX
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Checked inclusion principles https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML/blob/main/DOCS/license-inclusion-principles.md
Submitted as proposal to SPDX via https://tools.spdx.org/app/submit_new_license/
This Label Commons Public Licence (LCPL) is intended to give the public the permission to use a label under certain conditions. Labels are used as a sign, term or mark and can be applied to digital media or tangible material. The usage of labels without applying a LCPL license may be restricted by other organisations or companies who claim copyright and/or register them as a trademark. A typical use case for LCPL is clarifying usage right of a label used by a wider community. It may be protected by a so-called watchdog organisation, which could be an NGO, a trusted partner organisation or a foundation. Its role would be to claim ownership and probably even register it as a trademark. At the same time the watchdog organisation grants usage rights with only a few restrictions to the extend necessary to prevent misleading or unintended usage, such as making a business with a label of a movement or a software developer community.
More details and example see https://git.fairkom.net/legal/lcpl/
Regarding the license inclusion principles, this license has not yet been submitted, the licenses has a stable text and got feedback e.g. from the Commons Institute during the drafting phase, it has been presented publicly and it has an active steward, who is following the SPDX mailing list and is submitting the license here. The LCPL is not typically protecting software code, but the brand a software framework may be given. The intention is to avoid brand conflict or grabbing situations as we have seen it with free software projects such as Piwik/Matomo.