Bug#565884: Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses
Thibaut Paumard <paumard@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> 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
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.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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