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Bug#401173: marked as done (base-file: include more licences in /usr/share/common-licenses/)

Your message dated Wed, 05 Dec 2007 01:00:59 -0800
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has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

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Package: base-files
Version: 4
Severity: normal

The list of licenses is limited in:

    $ ls -1  /usr/share/common-licenses/
    Artistic
    BSD
    GPL
    GPL-2
    LGPL
    LGPL-2
    LGPL-2.1

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)

For more prospective candidates, see http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-1-686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ISO-8859-1) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US)

Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii  base-passwd               3.5.11         Debian base system master password
ii  gawk [awk]                1:3.1.5.dfsg-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  mawk [awk]                1.3.3-11       a pattern scanning and text proces

base-files recommends no packages.

-- no debconf information

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The GFDL has already been included in base-files.  The Apache 2.0 license
has been proposed in #291460 and can be discussed there more easily, since
it deals with only that single issue.  Including the PHP or MIT licenses
are bad ideas as previously discussed.  That only leaves the Creative
Commons license, and I don't see much indication that that's a common
license in Debian (even if there are versions that are DFSG-free, which as
I recall is unclear).

I don't think there's a point in keeping this bug open.  The Apache 2.0
license inclusion (which I support) can be discussed in #291460.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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