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Provide OSI approval information on license details / summaries

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Would it be helpful to add some type of metadata or OSI stamp to the licenses? The list of licenses from https://spdx.org/licenses/ or https://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical have columns to provide each license some means of showing it was [OSI Approved](https://opensource.org/licenses). This is a helpful piece of information when looking at a license.

Quick mockups:

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1288848/115926666-d7cbf280-a448-11eb-818b-f99d20a53396.png)

![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/1288848/115926749-f5995780-a448-11eb-8a05-3d416d01eeb2.png)

It seems that the [trademark allows for noncommercial/community websites to use it](https://opensource.org/trademark-guidelines).

**Note:** Could additionally do a similar badge or other metadata for the [FSF license list](https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html) which is also on many lists as a column.

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