Bug#1135097: Please extent list of licenses named in chapter 12.5

Package: debian-policy
Version: 4.7.4.1
Severity: normal
Tags: patch
X-Debbugs-Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Hello,

I want to extend the following section of 12.5 Debian Policy:

Recent Text:

Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the Artistic
license, the Creative Commons CC0-1.0 license, the GNU GPL (versions 1, 2, or
3), the GNU LGPL (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3),
and the Mozilla Public License (version 1.1 or 2.0) should refer to the
corresponding files under /usr/share/common-licenses, (footnote 9) rather than
quoting them in the copyright file.

New Text:

Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the Artistic
(versions 1.0 or 2.0) license, Boost Software License, Version 1.0, the
Creative Commons CC0-1.0 license,the Creative Commons CC-BY (version 3.0 or
4.0), the Creative Commons CC-BY-SA (version 3.0 or 4.0), the GNU Affero
General Public License (AGPLv3)  the GNU GPL (versions 1, 2, or 3), the GNU
LGPL (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), the GNU FDL-NIV (versions 1.2 or 1.3), the
Mozilla Public License (version 1.1 or 2.0), and the SIL Open Font License
(version 1.1) should refer to the corresponding files under /usr/share/common-
licenses, (footnote 9) rather than quoting them in the copyright file.

I can provide the license texts itself as merge request. I started to add them
to the base-files repository under

https://salsa.debian.org/mechtilde/base-
files/-/tree/master/licenses?ref_type=heads

I can also take care about the different bug reports for this task

kind regards

Mechtilde


-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (400, 'testing'), (300, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 6.19.11+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

debian-policy depends on no packages.

Versions of packages debian-policy recommends:
ii  libjs-jquery             3.7.1+dfsg+~3.5.33-1
ii  libjs-sphinxdoc          8.2.3-12
ii  sphinx-rtd-theme-common  3.1.0+dfsg-1

Versions of packages debian-policy suggests:
pn  doc-base  <none>

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