Bug#578522: base-files: please include CDDL license text
Thomas Koch <thomas@koch.ro> writes:
> Could you please include the CDDL license in the common licenses?
> http://www.opensource.org/licenses/cddl1.php
> As to my knowledge there are already a couple of packages with this
> license in the archive:
> openoffice, gfarm, kfreebsd-7
Yesterday, I did a survey of licenses used in Debian to, in part,
determine how many packages used the CDDL, detected by looking for key
parts of that license. The result of that survey was 190 binary packages
in Debian using that license.
While we don't have a specific criteria for inclusion of new licenses in
common-licenses, it's something that we default to not doing because of
the advantages of keeping the licensing material with the installed
package. It's generally only appropriate for licenses that are very
widely used and which would otherwise be duplicated on a significant scale
throughout the archive or on users' systems.
The least-used license already included in common-licenses is the GFDL,
used by 875 binary packages. Given that the usage of the CDDL is less
than fourth of that and less than 1% of the archive, I don't believe that
it warrants inclusion in common-licenses at this time.
I'm therefore marking this bug as rejected, although it will remain open
for a while in case anyone disagrees and wants to make a case for its
inclusion.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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