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

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 ?

>     * 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,