Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Russ Allbery wrote: >> Gürkan Sengün <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>> Since the Artistic, BSD, GPL, and LGPL licenses are included in >>> /usr/share/common-licenses, would it be possible to get the SIL OFL >>> included as well? >> It's in many respects better to include the license directly in >> debian/copyright, since it keeps all the legal information in one >> place. common-licenses is primarily an optimization of archive space >> and disk space so that we don't include thousands of copies of licenses >> like the GNU GPL. >> >> Because of this, the primary criteria for inclusion in common-licenses >> is how widespread the license is within Debian. Usually it needs to be >> used in at least hundreds of packages before being considered eligible >> for inclusion. >> >> How many packages currently use the SIL OFL? I don't appear to have >> any installed on my local system. > I see, well, here it's only about 10 or so: > grep "SIL OPEN" /usr/share/doc/ttf*/copyright | wc -l > 12 I think that's a strong argument for not including SIL OFL in common-licenses at this time. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
