Re: Which files should go in ‘/usr/share/common-licenses/’?
Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> writes:
> So I think we should specifically ask the position of people who have
> expertise maintaining machines with very small disk space: How to judge
> which files should be unilaterally installed in that directory, in the
> hope of saving not only the efforts of package maintainers, but also the
> storage requirements on storage-constrained systems.
+1. I'd love some guidance on this. I'm not convinced that our current
Policy approach is best here.
Although I'm not convinced that we want to put *every* DFSG-free license
there, since there are a lot of licenses only used by single packages, and
I'm not sure it's a good idea to have 80 copies of the Expat license with
all of its wording variants.
Please note that I'm pretty sure I can speak for the Policy maintainers as
a group in saying that no way are we taking on the responsibility for
determining what licenses are DFSG-free or not, so we'll need some source
of information for what licenses are eligible for inclusion from someone
else (probably ftpmaster, maybe via NEW processing).
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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