Semantic Conventions for licencing

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Is your change request related to a problem? Please describe.

In my workplace we deploy a lot of on-premise software managed via time based licences and currently we are simply writing to the log when it is expired or close to expiring with the hope a user sees in the log that it is close to expiring/has expired. By moving to a convention driven attribute approach we would be able to take these structured machine events and visualise them more efficently I see this also playing a role in applications such as firewalls, switches etc which might require subscriptions for functionality to corrrecly operate

Describe the solution you'd like

I would like for their to be an attribute group defined which can be used to describe the licencing state of the application/library so that i can easily see find events when my applications are getting close to renewal etc.

• licencing.status -> strongly typed string field of ie licenced, unlicensed, expired
• licencing.type -> strongly typed string field of types ie subscription, perpetual, trial
• licencing.expiry -> the date when the subscription

Describe alternatives you've considered

Implement my own conventions

Additional context

No response