Hi Jonathan, On Mi 28 Dez 2011 16:03:58 CET Jonathan Yu wrote:
Hi Mike, On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 7:47 AM, Mike Gabriel < mike.gabriel@das-netzwerkteam.de> wrote:I would love Debian to support this by setting a little signal which could be adding the license to common-licenses.To be fair, I don't think that inclusion in common-licenses is what you think it is. Russ can correct me if I'm mistaken here, but my impression is that common-licenses is around for a technical purpose: to conserve on disk space where many packages share a common license (rather than installing thousands of copies of a given file) as well as save some disk space on mirrors (as individual packages using those common licenses do not need to include the license text, and may simply refer to the file in common l icenses). [...]
Thanks for your detailled explanation!!! That gives me and others a very fine guide line!!!
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