On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 09:03:14AM +0000, Robert Ernst wrote: > Hello, > > I found this bug because I was asking myself why we don't include more > licenses in the /usr/share/common-licenses/ folder. > While I am open to have the big topic (of why we don't just put all licenses > know to man in every language put into the common-licences folder and then > refer from the debian/copyright file to that folder/files instead of putting > the whole license text into every package itself) I prefer to keep it at a > specific example in case of this bug. > > This bug was assigned at Mon, 03 Oct 2022 22:03:07 GMT to debian-policy. It > seems it was not getting attention from the debian-policy team since 6 > months.
The rule we follow is that the license need to be used by a non negligible percentage of packages. It is not the first time a bug report ask to add the AGPL. Last time the statistic was computed, the AGPL did not cut it, so the bug was closed. Cheers, Bill
