Bug#182916: adding GFDL license and license manpages to base-files
ok on the GFDL, not agreeing on the man page for the GPL, which should
be included in the base files.
Manoj Srivastava writes:
> Hi,
>
> My stance has been that in order to be classified as common,
> a license ought to be actually common -- say, a rule of thumb: be at
> least used in 5% of the packages.
>
> The rationale behind adding licenses to the common-licenses
> category is to prevent excessive duplication of the license text, and
> prevent useless waste of disk space; this saving in disk space is
> supposed to offset the additional effort to determine what the
> license is.
>
> So, if there are at least 5% of the source packages (or
> whatever number emrges from the debate that is sure to follow), we
> can include the license into common license. A nice, objective
> criteria for admission ;-)
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