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

Chris Hofstaedtler <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 10:08:28 +0200

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* Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> [260427 10:02]:
>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].

Great. Let me state some IMO relevant questions:

1) What was the outcome of the 2023 discussion?

2) If nothing has changed, why?

3) What is the current dataset?

Best,
Chris