On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 12:26:37PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
> I'd love to see some sort of guideline for this so that we could make
> incorporation of new licenses into Policy more objective in the future.
> I do agree that either priorities or popcon installations or both should
> be taken into account as well as sheer quantity of packages.
Ok, here's an idea for such a guideline:
For each packages with this license, compute max{1,log10(popcon)}. Sum
all those values. If the total is higher than the treshold, the license
should go in common-licenses.
"A package with this license" is a package which, when the license is
added, can use a link to common-licenses instead of quoting it. This
means packages which use a symbolic link for their
/usr/share/doc/package directory never count (because they aren't
quoting the license).
The treshold could be 20. This means in particular that 3 popular
packages, which will have a log10(popcon) between 5 and 6, is not
enough.
What do you think? Any comments are welcome. :-)
Thanks,
Bas
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