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Re: New script to check license usage



Quoting Russ Allbery on 2010-06-12 17:55:14:
> any conceivable space savings here for anything short of the GPL is
> going to vanish with the upload of a few new reasonable-sized games.

Doh! Why didn't I think of that!

> Maybe 3% of Debian binary packages plus saying that a majority (or
> three-quarters?) of Debian installations have at least one copy of the
> license installed?  Measuring the latter is, of course, quite difficult.

I've got preliminary ideas running through my head involving your script
and popcon; next time I have network access (assuming the repo's
public), I'll check out a copy and go through it.

Not everyone participates in popcon, but that's probably the best we've
got at this point for determining install base.

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