On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 11:18:24PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: > "Steve M. Robbins" <steve@sumost.ca> writes: > > > Debian-Policy: I suggested that the Perl license be added to > > common-licenses. Santiago Vila, the base-files maintainer, pointed > > out that the debian-policy list members make this decision. So I'm > > floating the idea for discussion here. > > I don't think it makes sense to include in common-licenses something > that's just a reference to other common licenses. It's not like the > boilerplate text for Perl modules is long; it's only about six lines, and > you'd still need to include at least a couple of lines to refer to the > file in common-licenses anyway. True. But as I carefully explained: in my view, it's not about saving bytes; it's about labelling. And about avoiding copying errors, which manifestly take place. Thanks, -Steve
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