Bug#885698: new licenses added on 2026-05-29

Santiago Vila [29/May  4:06pm +02] wrote:
> Hi.
>
> After a discussion has taken place, I've decided to add the nine
> licenses proposed by Mechtilde to base-files.
>
> Including a license in base-files should be considered as a promise
> that the licenses will be there indefinitely (i.e. forever in principle,
> unless there is a very strong reason not to, but I can't imagine right now
> what kind of reason that could be).
>
> I understand that packages under those licenses now "may" refer to the
> copies in base-files in an opt-in way, as it's an essential package.
>
> Naturally, I expect this to become a "should" in policy as well in
> some not too distant future, but there is not any hurry on my side.
>
> In fact, I think it would be a good thing if there was some kind of
> intermediate period during which maintainers receive some warning or
> advance notice in a less intrusive way than a bug report (for example,
> by way of a lintian warning).

Thanks.  We can document this in Policy if someone would provide an
updated patch.

It shouldn't be a 'should' yet, indeed.