Bug#681657: Please consider Adding Open Font License to /usr/share/common-licenses
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tag 681657 wontfix
usertags 681657 normative
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Le Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 01:57:13PM +0530, Vasudev Kamath a écrit :
>
> Open Fonts License (OFL)[1] is most widely used license in fonts. This
> is license is also considered as DFSG Free license [2].
>
> Since many font packages use this license it would be easier for the
> maintainer to just provide a link to the existing OFL file on a Debian
> system than trying to include whole OFL text inside the
> debian/copyright folder.
>
> Please consider adding this license and make life of a font package
> maintainer easy :-).
Dear Vasudev,
I counted (case-insensitively) the number of copyright files in Sid that
contains the string 'open font', and found 105 source packages. As indicated
by Russ in 2010 and confirmed later, the low bar for including a license in
/usr/share/common-licenses is roughly at one thousand packages. I am therefore
marking this bug "wontfix".
http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2010/06/msg00099.html
Have a nice Sunday,
--
Charles Plessy
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan
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