Re: Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses
Bas Wijnen <wijnen@debian.org> writes:
> 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. :-)
20 seems low for the 1 case. I don't think we want to add something to
common-licenses for only 20 packages. Over 100 at least seems right to me
unless the packages are particularly popular.
We may also want to say something about length of license. I don't think
we should ever add other variants of the BSD license or the MIT license to
common-licenses no matter how many packages use them, since they're only
two or three paragraphs. I view common-licenses as mainly useful for the
100+-line tomes.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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