Quoting Russ Allbery on 2010-06-09 13:36:22:
> The low bar for licenses included in common-licenses by license count is
> the GFDL, at 875 packages using it in some version. None of the licenses
> for which we have open bugs reach that package count. The closest is the
> MPL version 1.1, at 654 packages.
Perhaps an addition to policy to clarify such matters, something to the
effect of "A license should be placed in common-licenses if {x% of
Debian packages use it | y bytes will be saved by its inclusion}", would
be useful? [1].
If the idea's well liked I could go ahead and draft a diff.
[1] In my idea, x could be 2-2.5, or y could be 15-20MiB. That's large
enough to really save some space in the archive, yet small enough as to
reflect current practice, as far as I see things.
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