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)

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On 10/11/14 22:41, Charles Plessy wrote:
> For the avoidance of doubt, I have also counted the numbers for other CC
> licenses; here is the result.
...
> CC-BY 1.0                11
> CC-BY 2.0                 1
> CC-BY 2.5                33
> CC-BY 3.0               311
> CC-BY-SA 1.0              2
> CC-BY-SA 2.0             32
> CC-BY-SA 2.5             16
> CC-BY-SA 3.0            883
> CC-BY-SA 4.0             23

African or European swallow?^W^W^W^W American or international or (etc.)
Creative Commons?

adwaita-icon-theme, the package that prompted me to open this bug,
appears to need CC-BY-SA-3.0-US, CC-BY-SA-3.0-Unported,
CC-BY-SA-2.0-IT and CC-BY-3.0-US. Thankfully, the 4.0 series of licenses
only seem to have an International version.

If CC < 4.0 licenses are placed in common-licenses (which I think would
be reasonable for 3.0 but not earlier versions, judging by those
numbers) then I think the filenames should be CC-BY-SA-3.0-Unported or
similar, so that developers don't assume "this says CC-BY-SA 3.0, the
filename is CC-BY-SA-3.0, it must be the same license".

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