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Re: Common-licenses [was: Re: kissfft]



Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:22:56 -0800 Josh Triplett wrote:
>>Agreed.  For the same reason, I wonder why one particular variant
>>(3-clause, copyright "The Regents of the University of California") of
>>the BSD license is included in /usr/share/common-licenses, while the
>>standard MIT license is not.
> 
> You are quite right!
> I would think that the following licenses belong in
> /usr/share/common-licenses/  :
> 
> GPL-2  LGPL-2  LGPL-2.1
>  --- as they are just now
> 
> 2-clause-BSD
>  --- as in  http://www.fsf.org/licenses/info/BSD_2Clause.html
> 
> 3-clause-BSD
>  --- as in  http://www.fsf.org/licenses/info/BSD_3Clause.html
> 
> Expat-MIT
>  --- as in  http://www.jclark.com/xml/copying.txt
> 
> X11-MIT
>  --- as in  http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html
> 
> Maybe a wishlist bug should be filed against the base-files package...
> What do you think?

I agree with this entirely.

- Josh Triplett

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