Re: Including more licenses in 12.5

[Adeodato Simó <dato@net.com.org.es>]

* Manoj Srivastava [Mon, 19 Jun 2006 08:59:23 -0500]:

I'll give the numbers on my system so as to affirm that the proportions
are quite similar:

> __> grep-status -s Source '.' | sort -u | wc -l
>    1149
442
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | wc -l
>    3615
1448
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
>          xargs egrep -l 'GNU.+General' |>
915
>    2154
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
>          xargs egrep -l Artistic | wc -l
>     504
177
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
>          xargs egrep -l 'GNU.+Lesser' | wc -l
>     252
181
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
>          xargs egrep -l 'GNU.+Library' | wc -l
>     174
117
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
>          xargs egrep -l 'Berkeley' | wc -l
>      82
46
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
>          xargs egrep -l 'Python.+Software' | wc -l
17
>      19
> __> find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright | \
>          xargs egrep -l 'Zope' | wc -l
>      15
13

And now, I will give an extra command:

% find /usr/share/doc -type f -name copyright |  \
  xargs egrep -l 'GNU.+Documentation' | wc -l
168

(On my laptop this number is 268.)

This is because one and each of the binary packages coming from kde.org
(of which there are around 500) ships a copy of the GFDL. I would
certainly like to see this license shipped as a "common license".

Cheers,

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