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

Marco d'Itri <[email protected]> Mon, 27 Apr 2026 14:52:41 +0200

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On Apr 27, Mechtilde Stehmann <[email protected]> wrote:

>The issue at hand is the inclusion of additional license texts in the
>base-files package.
I think that there was a consensus back then and there is still one now.
Do you volunteer to NMU base-files, if the maintainer is not interested 
in working on this?

On Apr 27, Andrea Pappacoda <[email protected]> wrote:

>Maybe it'd make sense to restrict this to licenses which also included 
>in Essential packages, or ones with an high enough priority (like 
>Important), so that extra disk usage for base-files. is less of a 
>concern.
The list of licenses to be added is small enough that this should not be 
a concern. But maybe you have different data?

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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