Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

[Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de>]

Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.7.3.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi all,

in the beginning of 2003 it was discussed if the LPPL is DFSG
compatible. IIRC the result was the LPPL v1.3a^1, which is assumed to
be compatible to the DFSG. Hence we (the TeX Live maintainers) would
like to see that license mentioned in the policy.
Actually the # of packages under this license is rather medium:

hille@kloetzer:~ $ apt-cache search --names-only texlive|wc -l
93

which should make > 100, as there are a lot of other packages beside
TeX Live under this license.

Please consider to put that license into the policy.

Regards,
  Hilmar

^1 http://www.latex-project.org/lppl/lppl-1-3a.txt

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.24-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_GB.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

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