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Bug#565884: marked as done (Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses)

Your message dated Sat, 17 Jul 2010 19:42:34 -0700
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and subject line Re: Bug#565884: Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses
has caused the Debian Bug report #565884,
regarding Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses
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Package: base-files
Version: 5.0.0
Severity: wishlist

Hi,

there is a growing body of packages (or at least files) under [1]CeCILL license in the archive. The CeCILL licenses are wordy and the project would benefit from having them in /usr/share/common-licenses.

[1] http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html

Best regards, Thibaut.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.31-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_FR.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages base-files depends on:
ii  base-passwd               3.5.22         Debian base system master password
ii  gawk [awk]                1:3.1.6.dfsg-4 GNU awk, a pattern scanning and pr
ii  mawk [awk]                1.3.3-15       a pattern scanning and text proces

base-files recommends no packages.

base-files suggests no packages.

-- no debconf information

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Russ Allbery <rra@debian.org> writes:

> As revealed in subsequent discussion when this bug was originally filed,
> the number of packages using CeCILL licenses is fairly small (under 20
> at the last survey), and there are multiple different forms of the
> license, so each license is used only a handful of times.

> While we've never set a firm numeric limit for license consideration in
> common-licenses, the general feeling is that it should be at least a
> couple of hundred, so this seems to be well short.

> I'm accordingly marking this Policy bug as rejected.  It will remain
> open for some time in case anyone has any objections or disagrees with
> this analysis.

There has been no subsequent discussion, so I'm closing this bug now.

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

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