Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy
On 16.05.08 Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) wrote:
> Hilmar Preusse <hille42@web.de> writes:
Hi *,
> > In the moment we have the situation that we are requested to add
> > the license to all TL packages, instead of just adding it to one
> > and put only referers into the others (#473216). This gives us
> > 1.8 MB of license files, which could be saved of the LPPL would
> > be in base-files.
>
> More relevantly than the total size, IMO (1.8MB isn't really very
> much) is that according to popcon, one-seventh of our systems have
> at least texlive-base installed.
>
You should rather check for the texlive-base-bin package, as only
this (together with the texlive-base) package gives you a functioning
basic TeX installation.
> If every texlive-base installation would benefit from having LPPL
> in common-licenses and most installations involve more than one
> package with the LPPL, that looks like a fairly reasonable case for
> common-licenses to me.
>
So you need at least two packages to get a basic TeX Live
installation. So every installation benefits from the inclusion.
H.
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