Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > What work are you referring to ? Longer copyright files are more painful to edit. -- Sean Whitton signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Processed: forcibly merging 795402 883968

2017-12-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > forcemerge 795402 883968 Bug #795402 [debian-policy] base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts Bug #795402 [debian-policy] base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts Marked as found in versions debian-policy/4.1.2.0. Bug #

Processed: forcibly merging 795402 883969

2017-12-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > forcemerge 795402 883969 Bug #795402 [debian-policy] base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts Bug #883968 [debian-policy] debian-policy: please add CC-BY-SA-3.0 to common licenses Bug #883969 [debian-policy] debian-policy: please ad

Bug#883969: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-SA-4.0 to common licenses

2017-12-09 Thread Markus Koschany
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.2.0 Severity: normal Hi, as discussed on debian-devel [1] I would like to see that more DFSG licenses are added to /usr/share/common-licenses and that package maintainers are just allowed to reference them. License: CC-BY-SA-4.0 Source: https://creativecommons

Bug#883968: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-SA-3.0 to common licenses

2017-12-09 Thread Markus Koschany
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.2.0 Severity: normal Hi, as discussed on debian-devel [1] I would like to see that more DFSG licenses are added to /usr/share/common-licenses and that package maintainers are just allowed to reference them. License: CC-BY-SA-3.0 Source: https://creativecommons

Bug#883966: debian-policy: please add MIT/Expat to common licenses

2017-12-09 Thread Markus Koschany
Package: debian-policy Version: 4.1.2.0 Severity: normal Hi, as discussed on debian-devel [1] I would like to see that more DFSG licenses are added to /usr/share/common-licenses and that package maintainers are just allowed to reference them. License: MIT / Expat Source: https://opensource.org/l

Bug#742364: Patch to document debian/missing-sources

2017-12-09 Thread Holger Levsen
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 12:16:35PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > I am seeking seconds for the following patch: > > > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst > > index 37c4442..f8f768f 100644 > > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst > > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst > > @@ -686,6 +686,26 @@ even

Bug#742364: Patch to document debian/missing-sources

2017-12-09 Thread Sean Whitton
control: severity -1 normal control: tag -1 +patch Hello, I am seeking seconds for the following patch: > diff --git a/policy/ch-source.rst b/policy/ch-source.rst > index 37c4442..f8f768f 100644 > --- a/policy/ch-source.rst > +++ b/policy/ch-source.rst > @@ -686,6 +686,26 @@ even if most environ

Processed: Patch to document debian/missing-sources

2017-12-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing control commands: > severity -1 normal Bug #742364 [debian-policy] Document debian/missing-sources Severity set to 'normal' from 'wishlist' > tag -1 +patch Bug #742364 [debian-policy] Document debian/missing-sources Added tag(s) patch. -- 742364: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-09 Thread Bill Allombert
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 11:53:51AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > See the file tools/license-count in the policy git repo and look up > > the debian-policy list archive for previous statistics. > > Thanks. > > > The point is that if ther

Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?

2017-12-09 Thread Sean Whitton
[CCing -devel, but please move discussion to -policy] Hello Markus, On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Markus Koschany wrote: > Users who are facing this kind of limitations will most likely remove > /usr/share/common-licenses, /usr/share/doc and /usr/share/man and > maybe more already. I don't think that it

Bug#883950: debian-policy: allow specifying common licenses with only the identifier

2017-12-09 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
Package: debian-policy Nowadays it's common to see stand alone license paragraphs like these: |License: GPL-2+ | On Debian systems the full text of the GPL-2 can be found in | /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2 or |License: GPL-2+ | This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or mo

Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Bill Allombert wrote: > See the file tools/license-count in the policy git repo and look up > the debian-policy list archive for previous statistics. Thanks. > The point is that if there are licenses not in common-licenses that > are much more common than CC0, it wou

Processed: restore blocks that were removed by merge

2017-12-09 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: > block 882629 by 882628 Bug #882629 [systemd] systemd: debian/copyright refers to the CC0 license by URL 882629 was not blocked by any bugs. 882629 was not blocking any bugs. Added blocking bug(s) of 882629: 859649 and 882628 > block 882630 by 8826

Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-09 Thread Bill Allombert
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?

Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso

2017-12-09 Thread Sean Whitton
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? We might want to revise that perce