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-=| gregor herrmann, Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 12:50:36AM +0200 |=-
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:54:45 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > I therefore propose adding GPL version 1 to the list of licenses
> > said by
> > Policy to be in common-licenses and asking Santiago to include a copy in
> > base-files. I'
gregor herrmann writes:
> On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:03:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> Certainly if the license becomes more broadly used in the future, it
>> can be proposed for inclusion again at that time.
> Some clear criterion might be helpful (and save you some time in the
> future :))
It's
Modestas Vainius writes:
> On the other hand, 130+ packages is not such a small number so those
> licenses are still "common" just to a lesser extent. I tend not to view
> "common" as "very popular" but rather "shared by multiple things". So I
> wonder what are the disadvantages of including them
Russ Allbery writes:
> Hilmar Preusse writes:
>> In the moment we have the situation that we are requested to add the
>> license to all TL packages, instead of just adding it to one and put
>> only referers into the others (#473216). This gives us 1.8 MB of
>> license files, which could be saved
* Russ Allbery , 2010-06-10, 13:13:
diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
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--- a/policy.sgml
+++ b/policy.sgml
@@ -9227,14 +9227,13 @@ END-INFO-DIR-ENTRY
- Packages distributed under the UCB BSD license, the Apache
- license (versio
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 13:13:23 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Any further discussion?
Sounds logcial to me.
> I'm also looking for seconds for the Policy patch
> below:
>
> diff --git a/policy.sgml b/policy.sgml
> index 87b9795..02d6f8d 100644
> --- a/policy.sgml
> +++ b/policy.sgml
> @@ -9227,14
On Tue, 29 Dec 2009, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> In my opinion, DFSG-free Create Commons v3.0 licenses are already
> common enough to be included in /usr/share/common-licenses:
>
> CC-BY-3.0 - Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported:
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
> http://crea
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:03:41 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Based on that search, there are still only 20 binary packages in the
> archive covered by the Artistic 2.0 license.
Thanks for your research!
> Given that, this license really isn't common in Debian, and hence doesn't
> warrant inclusion
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 14:54:45 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Given that, while I'm very sympathetic to Santiago's argument, I also
> think that we should be able to represent in packages their upstream
> licensing statement and not be implicitly relicensing them under later
> versions of the GPL,
A
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Santiago Vila writes:
> On Sun, 5 Aug 2007, Sam Hocevar wrote:
>>There are still many packages that mention the GPL version 1 in
>> their copyright file (around 350). Many Perl packages, but also Perl
>> itself and widespread things like sed, joe, cvs, dict...
>>There are also countless
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Rolf Leggewie writes:
> please include the FreeBSD license among the ones in
> /usr/share/common-licenses/ FreeBSD is not the same as BSD, only
> similar. BSD has three clauses, FreeBSD only 2.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license
> http://www.freebsd.org/copyright/freebsd-license.html
T
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Russ Allbery writes:
> Gürkan Sengün writes:
>> Russ Allbery wrote:
>>> 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 spa
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Thomas Koch writes:
> Could you please include the CDDL license in the common licenses?
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php
> As to my knowledge there are already a couple of packages with this
> license in the archive:
> openoffice, gfarm, kfreebsd-7
Yesterday, I did a survey of lic
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On ketvirtadienis 10 Birželis 2010 22:55:20 Russ Allbery wrote:
> Yesterday, I did a survey of all licenses in Debian, which among other
> things attempted to locate all uses of this license by either its title
> (case-insensitive and whitespace-insensitive) or via the DEP-5 format.
> The r
On 10/06/10 22:13, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I therefore propose proceeding as follows:
>
> 1. Add a new Lintian warning asking people to stop using the
>common-licenses link for the BSD license and instead include the
>license directly in debian/copyright. As we've discussed in the past,
>
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:31:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery writes:
> > Hilmar Preusse writes:
>
> >> In the moment we have the situation that we are requested to add the
> >> license to all TL packages, instead of just adding it to one and put
> >> only referers into the others
Ian Jackson writes:
> Russ Allbery writes ("Bug#487201: MPL-license"):
>> By pure numbers, that's not a sufficient number of packages to warrant
>> inclusion in common-licenses according to the criteria previously
>> discussed here. (I think it falls short by hundreds.)
> I don't think pure num
Russ Allbery writes:
> However, the first change in this bug is still relevant, and there
> doesn't appear to be another open bug on this issue. The current BSD
> license in common-licenses is not particularly useful since it
> specifically lists the University of California as the copyright hol
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Russ Allbery writes:
> I think the general feeling was that by the time we have around 250
> packages in the archive or so that are using it, it probably warrants
> inclusion, since we know that its use is going to grow in the long run.
> Last time I checked, which was quite some time ago, there
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