Re: Bug#101147: base-files: Include LaTeX Project Common License in /usr/share/common-licenses/

[Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org>]

>>"Santiago" == Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es> writes:

 >> 
 >> It would be nice if the current version of the LaTeX Project
 >> Public License (LPPL) was included with the licenses in
 >> /usr/share/common-licenses/.


	How many packages are there under this license? Seems to me
 that in order for a license to be termed ``common'', it should indeed
 be common -- and some sizeable fraction of Debian packages be
 available under the terms of that license (the sizeable fraction to
 be decided upon, of course, but shouldn't it at least 10%?)

	manoj

	Here are some quick and dirty results, good for ball park
 estimates (some packages are dual licensed, for example). 

__> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | wc -l
   1588
__> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
         xargs egrep -l 'GNU.+General' |>
    713
__> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
         xargs egrep -l Artistic | wc -l
    125
__> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
         xargs egrep -l 'Berkeley' | wc >
    87
__> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
         xargs egrep -l 'GNU.+Library' | wc -l
    107
__> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
         xargs egrep -l 'GNU.+Lesser' | >
     20



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