On Thu, Aug 13, 2020 at 12:42 PM Jens-Ulrik Petersen
<petersen@redhat.com> wrote:
> https://www.openhub.net/licenses/cnews.

This is almost identical to what Fedora calls the revised version of
the Henry Spencer Regex Library License:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Licensing/Henry_Spencer_Reg-Ex_Library_License

Note this compliance-related comment:
"Be sure to include a copy of the newer license terms in the package
as %license, to comply with the "documentation" clauses."

Apparently the Fedora license tag for either version of the Henry
Spencer license has been "HSRL". SPDX uses the short identifier
"Spencer-94" for what I think is essentially identical to the revised
HSRL.

The difference that I spotted is that this CNEWS license adds the word
"freely". I believe that would cause the license text not to match
Spencer-94 in the SPDX sense.

That difference is far less significant than textual differences in
other licenses that Fedora has mapped to the sam License: tag.
Therefore, as an unsatisfying shorter term solution here I'd suggest
using "HSRL".