Bug#620674: base-files: Please include the text of the Open Font License (OFL) in /usr/share/common-licenses
Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:
> On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Christian Perrier wrote:
>> The Open Font License is quite universally considered as meeting the
>> DFSG. Indeed, several font packages in Debian main provide fonts
>> distributed under that license.
>> Having the full text of OFL distributed in /usr/share/common-licenses
>> would avoid including the text of the license in these packages.
> According to base-files FAQ, I do not decide about this. The debian
> policy group does. Hence the reassign.
Hi Christian,
I did a scan of the archive last year (in June), and the result was
relatively few uses of the SIL Open Font License:
SIL OFL 1.0 12
SIL OFL 1.1 55
so a total of 67 usages of the family. For comparison, the smallest
number of usages of a family of licenses of those in common-licenses is
the GFDL, at 875.
At the time, we therefore decided that this was some distance away from
being widely used enough to put in common-licenses, given the various
drawbacks of that (adding a level of indirection for people reviewing
licenses and so on).
Do you think this may have changed in the subsequent nine months? I can
run my survey script again.
If you're curious, here's the complete results of my scan from last June:
Apache 2.0 1119
Artistic 2285
Artistic 2.0 30
BSD (common-licenses) 1556
CC-BY 3.0 52
CC-BY-SA 3.0 79
CDDL 190
CeCILL 12
CeCILL-B 7
CeCILL-C 20
GFDL (any) 875
GFDL (symlink) 389
GFDL 1.2 499
GFDL 1.3 67
GPL (any) 19893
GPL (symlink) 10116
GPL 1 1540
GPL 2 9073
GPL 3 2797
LGPL (any) 7183
LGPL (symlink) 2524
LGPL 2 4679
LGPL 2.1 3189
LGPL 3 691
LaTeX PPL 1.3c 297
MPL 1.1 654
SIL OFL 1.0 12
SIL OFL 1.1 55
Total number of packages: 29470
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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