Bug#401173: base-file: include GFDL and more licences in /usr/share/common-licenses/
> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Jari Aalto wrote:
>> SUGGESTION
>>
>> Please add more standard license texts in the directory. Like:
>>
>> - GFDL
>> - MIT/X license
>> - Apache License
>> - PHP License
>> - http://creativecommons.org/ (when DFSG ready)
I agree with the proposal to add the GFDL and Apache 2.0 licenses; they're
already used by multiple packages and would save copyright file length and
duplication. (Although I can see an argument against adding the GFDL
because not all of its provisions are DFSG-free.)
The MIT/X license cannot be handled in this way. It includes varient text
(the name of the organization) that changes in each license. It will have
to continue to live in each individual copyright file.
I have no opinion on the other two.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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