Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:
>
> > I did a check today, and there are over 230 binary packages in the
> > archive with the Apache License. (I believe essentially all of them are
> > Apache 2.0, although the simple grep I did made that a bit harder to
> > check.)
> >
> > I think that reaches the threshold for making it worthwhile to include
> > the license in base-files, particularly given that it's been requested
> > several times, although we don't really have a formal policy on how many
> > packages are enough packages.
> >
> > Cc'ing Santiago Vila just FYI; I know you've delegated the decision to
> > the Policy group.
>
> I have gotten no further feedback on this proposal. I would like to
> resolve this bug for the next Policy release one way or the other. Could
> others reading the Policy list please express an opinion on whether we
> should add the Apache 2.0 license to the list of common-licenses?
Seems sensible to me.
Cheers,
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Raphaël Hertzog
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