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Re: Licenses not in /usr/share/common-licenses



Michael Gilbert <michael.s.gilbert@gmail.com> writes:

> Would it be unreasonable if someone were to start an "uncommon-licenses"
> package?  Then any package depending on that could use a reference to
> the license instead of including the full text in debian/copyright.

Does that satisfy our legal requirements?  common-licenses is more than
just a dependency; it's essential, and it's extremely difficult to create
a Debian system that doesn't have it.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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