Re: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Hello Bill,

Am 27.04.26 um 18:48 schrieb Bill Allombert:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 10:02:01AM +0200, Mechtilde Stehmann wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> As a member of the new DFSG team, I would like to restart the discussion
>> from September 2023..
>>
>> The issue at hand is the inclusion of additional license texts in the
>> base-files package.
>>
>> In doing so, I would like to continue Russ Albery’s proposal [0].
>>
>> Licenses will be included in common-licenses if they meet all of the
>> following criteria:
>>
>>      * The license is DFSG-free.
> 
> Do you mean the license text or the license itself ?

I mean these 8 licenses:

* Artistic 2.0
* AGPL-3.0
* BSL-1.0
* CC BY-3.0
* CC BY-4.0
* CC BY-SA-3.0
* CC BY-SA-4.0
* OFL-1.1.
> 
>>      * Exactly the same license wording is used by all works covered by it.
>>      * The license applies to at least 100 source packages in Debian.
>>      * The license text is longer than 25 lines.
> 
> For the remaining licenses, I have made a proposal to fill in debian/copyright
> at build time from the list of SPDX identifier.
> This is still an option if the NEW team does not reject it.
> 
> Cheers,

Regards
-- 
Mechtilde Stehmann

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