Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso
On Sat, Dec 09, 2017 at 11:53:51AM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sat, Dec 09 2017, Bill Allombert wrote:
>
> > See the file tools/license-count in the policy git repo and look up
> > the debian-policy list archive for previous statistics.
>
> Thanks.
>
> > The point is that if there are licenses not in common-licenses that
> > are much more common than CC0, it would make more sense to add them
> > rather than CC0.
>
> I don't think this is a good argument. For example, it may be that the
> other CC-* licenses are more common than CC0. But there are complex
> reasons why adding those CC-* licenses to common-licenses will take more
> work. We shouldn't let that block adding CC0 just because it is not the
> most common CC license.
What work are you referring to ? What I have described is the common
practice for managing common-licenses which was used so far as you can
see in the archive.
Cheers,
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Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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