Bug#768292: Let's add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? (was Re: Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files)

[Charles Plessy <plessy@debian.org>]

Le Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 08:21:58AM +0900, Mike Hommey a écrit :
> 
> Note the iceweasel copyright file uses that stanza for both MPL-1.1 and
> MPL-2.0, and is still about 100K long. Even if MPL-2.0 ends up in the
> common set of licenses, that would still leave the MPL-1.1 being a
> problem, while, in fact, it's barely relevant: all the code under the
> MPL-1.1 is either dual or tri-licensed with LGPL-2.1 as an alternative.
> 
> So, I would still hate to have to put the verbatim MPL-1.1 text in the
> iceweasel copyright file.

Hi Mike and everybody,

here is the current license count that I just calculated on the lintian lab
(lilburn.debian.org) using tools/licence-count from the Policy's Git repository.

AGPL 3                  292
Apache 2.0             4764
Artistic               3818
Artistic 2.0            201
BSD (common-licenses)   349
CC-BY 3.0               309
CC-BY-SA 3.0            883
CDDL                    504
CeCILL                   54
CeCILL-B                 50
CeCILL-C                 33
GFDL (any)             2181
GFDL (symlink)          541
GFDL 1.2               1088
GFDL 1.3                617
GPL (any)             41017
GPL (symlink)          7765
GPL 1                  3659
GPL 2                 25825
GPL 3                 11428
LGPL (any)            18377
LGPL (symlink)         2480
LGPL 2                14714
LGPL 2.1              10441
LGPL 3                 2644
LaTeX PPL                76
LaTeX PPL (any)         197
LaTeX PPL 1.3c          184
MPL 1.1                1146
MPL 2.0                 853
SIL OFL 1.0              13
SIL OFL 1.1             567

Total number of packages: 73267

How about adding both MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ?

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan