On Tue, May 08, 2012 at 05:10:07PM +0800, Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote: > Creative Commons are also a common licenses which many artworks are > using it, but it does not necessary to attach the legal code on it. Is > it reasonable to put Creative Commons licenses (at least > DFSG-compatible ones) into a single package like > creative-commons-licenses?
There's one argument in favour of centralizing license texts: reducing replication in the archive. (Correct me if there's another). This is diminished somewhat by the high-compressibility of license texts (avg. ~33% for the common license texts.) On the other hand, Debian packages are sometimes distributed outside of the distribution channels (apt etc.). Without the texts in-.deb, they don't self-describe their own license terms. I think this is an attractive feature of packages (and an argument against the existing licenses in base-files. One that no doubt has been argued before.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120508111000.GC12471@debian
