On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 05:44:30PM -0500, Brian Ryans wrote:
> Quoting Russ Allbery on 2010-06-09 13:36:22:
> > The low bar for licenses included in common-licenses by license count is
> > the GFDL, at 875 packages using it in some version.  None of the licenses
> > for which we have open bugs reach that package count.  The closest is the
> > MPL version 1.1, at 654 packages.

> Perhaps an addition to policy to clarify such matters, something to the
> effect of "A license should be placed in common-licenses if {x% of
> Debian packages use it | y bytes will be saved by its inclusion}", would
> be useful? [1].

I don't think that clarification belongs in Policy.

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