Re: Bug#541703: base-files: Please include FreeBSD license
Le Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit :
>
> The purpose of /usr/share/common-licenses (with one exception, see below)
> is not to accumulate good free software licenses, but rather primarily to
> save space both in the archive and on installed systems. For example,
> there are 19,893 packages in the archive that reference some form of the
> GPL, and given its length, we don't want to ship 19,893 copies of the GPL
> and have every Debian user have hundreds or thousands of copies of it
> installed.
Hello everybody,
I would like to add that it helps to make the copyright summary much more
readable, when instead of having the information buried between long copies
of common licenses, there is their boilerplate and a link to their full text.
So personnaly, I support the addition of long licences to
/usr/share/common-licenses even when their quantity is in the order of a couple
of dozens (like the Artistic License 2.0).
Have a nice day
--
Charles Plessy
Paris, France
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