On Sat, 2023-09-09 at 20:35 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Licenses will be included in common-licenses if they meet all of the > following criteria: > > * The license is DFSG-free. > * 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.
That is a good starting point. The third rules could be made more relaxed to also allow including licences that will save disk space for common installations (todo: define what is common). Example: More than 2 (or 3) source packages use this license which produce binary packages that are part of the desktop and/or server seed. -- Benjamin Drung Debian & Ubuntu Developer
