While on principle I agree with Charles Plessy about the merits of including this license despite not having the "critical mass" that Debian would like, I understand the view of those in the policy team and respect their decision.
For what it's worth, I've added a machine-readable-copyright-format-compatible Artistic-2.0 license text to: http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/copyright.html -- in reality, I've only come across a few Artistic-2.0 licensed modules (the rest are semi-ambiguous "same terms as Perl" -- which gets confusing with the abundance of Perl6:: modules, but I digress). I still consider having to copy-and-paste that license (and later having to remove it and replace it with a reference to the one in common-licenses) papercuts -- they're annoying, but not the end of the world. And I guess we won't have to worry about removing them for another few years yet.. so we can let future-me deal with it :-) On Sun, Aug 30, 2009 at 2:35 AM, Charles Plessy<ple...@debian.org> wrote: > Le Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 02:23:26PM +0200, gregor herrmann a écrit : >> >> As a first approach I've grepped thruugh the lintian lab: >> >> gre...@bellini:/org/lintian.debian.org/laboratory/source$ egrep "(Artistic >> License (Version )*2|Artistic-2)" */debfiles/copyright | cut -f1 -d/ | uniq >> | wc -l >> 19 > > Interestingly, this list does not fully overlap with the result of a search > for > "The Artistic Licence 2.0" using OpenGrok. > > http://walrus.rave.org/source/search?q="The+Artistic+Licence+2.0"; > > This said, I would like to add my voice to say that since there are good > reasons to think that the Artistic license 2.0 will become a common license > some days, even if it takes a few years, it would be kind to add it in the > common license list in advance, to save the maintainer's time from adding it > to > debian/copyright now and removing later. > > Have a nice day, > > -- > Charles Plessy > Debian Med packaging team, > http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med > Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
