Bug#473216: Any progress?
Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de> wrote:
> On 15.03.09 Frank Küster (frank@debian.org) wrote:
>> Francesco Poli <frx@firenze.linux.it> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> > Is there any progress on obtaining
>> > /usr/share/common-licenses/LPPL-1.3 ?
>>
>> None at all AFAIK. Or have you submitted a bug, Hilmar?
>>
> http://bugs.debian.org/481491
Thank you!
> However the policy maintainers weren't really convinced to include
> LPPL-1.3 into the policy, AFAICT. Please have a look at that bug,
> status is "Under Discussion".
Well, I must say that this argument is convincing to me:
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| However, this doesn't sound like it qualifies IMO. The reason is that
| while TeX Live consists of a lot of packages, there are many
| installations where none of them are installed. Putting them in
| /usr/share/common-licenses means it is also installed on embedded system
| which are really short on storage (and which will certainly not install
| any TeX packages).
|
| A license should only be in /usr/share/common-licenses if it is hard to
| image a system which doesn't have any package under that license
| installed. How to measure that is obviously a problem. :-)
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And that would mean that we don't get LPPL in /usr/share/common-licenses.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Debian Developer (TeXLive)
VCD Aschaffenburg-Miltenberg, ADFC Miltenberg
B90/Grüne KV Miltenberg
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