Re: Bug#620674: base-files: Please include the text of the Open Font License (OFL) in /usr/share/common-licenses

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

reassign 620674 debian-policy
thanks

On Sun, 3 Apr 2011, Christian Perrier wrote:

> Package: base-files
> Version: 6.1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The Open Font License is quite universally considered as meeting the
> DFSG. Indeed, several font packages in Debian main provide fonts
> distributed under that license.
> 
> Having the full text of OFL distributed in /usr/share/common-licenses
> would avoid including the text of the license in these packages.

According to base-files FAQ, I do not decide about this. The debian
policy group does. Hence the reassign.

Thanks.