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Bug#562920: marked as done (Including Create Commons v3.0 licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses)

Your message dated Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:41:32 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#562920: Including Create Commons v3.0 licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses
has caused the Debian Bug report #562920,
regarding Including Create Commons v3.0 licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses
to be marked as done.

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Package: base-files
Version: 5.0.0
Severity: wishlist

Hello,

In my opinion, DFSG-free Create Commons v3.0 licenses are already common enough
to be included in /usr/share/common-licenses:

CC-BY-3.0 - Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported:
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

CC-BY-SA-3.0 - Create Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported:
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode


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Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages base-files depends on:
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base-files recommends no packages.

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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> Yesterday, I did a survey of all licenses in Debian, which among other
> things attempted to locate all uses of this license by either its title
> (case-insensitive and whitespace-insensitive) or via the DEP-5 format.
> The result was 52 binary packages in the archive using CC-BY 3.0 and 79
> binary packages in the archive using CC-BY-SA 3.0.

> While we don't have any strict criteria for inclusion in
> common-licenses, this is well shy of the least-used license already
> present (the GFDL, at 875 binary packages).  I don't believe either of
> these licenses used nearly frequently enough to warrant inclusion in
> common-licenses.

> I'm marking this bug as rejected accordingly, although it will stay open
> for a while in case anyone disagrees and wants to make a case for its
> inclusion.

There was some subsequent discussion of the thresholds for what should go
into common-licenses, but I don't believe anything that substantially
altered the conclusion above.  I'm therefore going ahead with closing this
bug now.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>

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