Rejected: Bug#435476: add MIT License as a common license
This proposal requests adding the MIT license (the Expat license version
of it) to common-licenses.
As explained in the bug, the minor wording changes to this license when
used by different packages make it not as common as it looks. In
addition, there is a general preference on the Policy list for including
short licenses in debian/copyright rather than adding the redirection and
the requirement that the package be distributed along-side base-files.
The disk space savings that apply for licenses like the GPL don't apply
for these short, three-paragraph licenses.
I'm therefore rejecting this proposal.
If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons that
weren't raised in the prior bug discussion, please raise them in this bug.
If you disagree with the rejection of this proposal for reasons already
raised in the bug, the path of appeal for a Policy proposal rejection is
to the tech-ctte. See http://www.debian.org/devel/tech-ctte for how to
make an appeal to the tech-ctte.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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