Re: Bug#111281: base-files: MPL should be included in package
On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 10:17:21PM +1000, Steve Kowalik wrote:
> > Josip> Please make a list.
> >
> > Indeed. Is there a quick way of checking how many packages are
> > under the current set of common licenses? That count would offer some
> > hints on thresholds of popularity to base a decision on.
>
> The information is in /usr/share/doc/<package>/copyright, but unless there
> is a tool I can think of that parses it nicely looking for useful words
> after (or before) '[Ll]icense', we're stuck estimating.
I remember someone posting a fairly good estimate last time someone
requested a license to be included among common-licenses. The numbers
were several hundreds for each.
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