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New license request: First CVSS #5231

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License Name
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License Homepage URL
The primary and/or most reliable URL that contains the text of this license and/or information about it. This is ideally a web page dedicated to the license, but it may also be a source file that contains the license text.

See first page of https://www.first.org/cvss/v3-1/cvss-v31-specification_r1.pdf

Or in https://www.first.org/cvss/v4.0/specification-document or in https://www.first.org/cvss/v3.1/specification-document that are likely the same.

Text is:
CVSS is owned and managed by FIRST.Org, Inc. (FIRST), a US-based non-profit organization, whose mission is to help computer security incident response teams across the world. FIRST reserves the right to update CVSS and this document periodically at its sole discretion. While FIRST owns all right and interest in CVSS, it licenses it to the public freely for use, subject to the conditions below. Membership in FIRST is not required to use or implement CVSS. FIRST does, however, require that any individual or entity using CVSS give proper attribution, where applicable, that CVSS is owned by FIRST and used by permission. Further, FIRST requires as a condition of use that any individual or entity which publishes scores conforms to the guidelines described in this document and provides both the score and the scoring vector so others can understand how the score was derived.

Reference URLs
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License Notes
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See also the related https://scancode-licensedb.aboutcode.org/first-epss-usage.html

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