After debian-legal goes to all the trouble of determining whether some licence is free or not, it would be useful for their decision to bedisplayed, so others can easily see the decision later, without having towaste time searching through the mailing list.
debian-legal (should?) consider software being packaged for debian, not just the licence, so talking of "whether some licence is free" actually doesn't make as much sense as you might think. Some people have been trying to collect summaries of licences, but I suggest that case studies of particular packages would be more useful and could probably tie in with the previously posted "why is this in non-free" list.
It could perhaps also serveas a kind of "shame file", encouraging upstream authors to consider changingtheir program to a DSFG-free licence.
This is a really crap reason and should be avoided. Maybe explaining to upstream authors why we don't like a licence is a good idea, but trying to shame them doesn't sound like a good way to encourage them.
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