On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 10:26:26AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello Bill, > > On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > So, what is the percentage of packages under this license ? This has > > always been the criterium used to put it in common-licenses. > > Could you say more, please? What was the percentage used in the past?
See the file tools/license-count in the policy git repo and look up the debian-policy list archive for previous statistics. > We might want to revise that percentage because of how cheap disc space > is nowadays. It's also not clear whether the saving is significant for > low disc space systems; someone on -devel this week said that they just > have to rm -rf /usr/share/doc anyway. > > It might also be worth considering the fact that having licenses in > common-licenses makes editing d/copyright easier for package > maintainers. Previously this was overridden by disc space concerns but > that might not make sense anymore. Yet there is a bug open about removing changelog files to save space. The point is that if there are licenses not in common-licenses that are much more common than CC0, it would make more sense to add them rather than CC0. Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
