Bug#284340: base-files: Please remove reference to UC in BSD license and add other licenses

[Bill Allombert <allomber@math.u-bordeaux.fr>]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 06:35:03PM +0100, Santiago Vila wrote:
> > Please remove reference to a specific copyright holder (The Regents of 
> > the University of California) in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD and 
> > rename it 3-clause-BSD. Including only one narrow variant of the
> > BSD license seems highly error-prone.
> > 
> > Moreover, please add 2 clause BSD license, Expat (a.k.a. MIT) license,
> > and X11 (a.k.a. MIT) license in /usr/share/common-licenses/
> 
> IMHO, the licenses you propose to be added to /usr/share/common-licenses
> are short enough that no disk space is saved at all by having a "single"
> copy in base-files. For this reason I think we could even remove the
> current BSD license itself, since it's just 1499 bytes long.

On the other hand, it make sense to include licenses explicitely
mentioned by the social contract text for references, so there is
no ambiguity which license we mean:

 10. Example Licenses

     The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of licenses that
     we consider "free".

Cheers,
-- 
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>

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