Bug#885698: Bug#1135097: Bug#885698: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?

Andrey Rakhmatullin <[email protected]> Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:32:32 +0500

Newsgroups	gmane.linux.debian.devel.policy
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On Tue, Apr 28, 2026 at 01:15:35PM +0100, Peter Blackman wrote:
>Could common-licenses directory be compressed?

We don't even compress copyright files (in fact, we explicitly forbid that 
in Policy 12.5). That would save even more space, it's 63 MB in total on 
my machine and 2.1 MB on the aforementioned minimal forky.

I've searched for a policy bug and of course there was one: #491055, filed 
in 2008, no discussions after 2008, closed in 2017 for inactivity.

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