Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses

[Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>]

Control: unmerge -1
Control: tags -1 +patch

On Wed, Apr 5, 2017 at 9:59 AM, Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@ubuntu.com> wrote:
> I am aware of bug 795402 (Add Creative Commons license texts) but I
> believe this request is a lot simpler than that one because it looks
> to me like there is only one version of this license.

I am unmerging this bug because I think we can add this particular
license without needing to handle every Creative Commons license at
the same time.

Here's an updated URL for usage in Debian:
https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=CC0-1\.0&perpkg=1

I am attaching a git patch to update Policy.

Thanks,
Jeremy Bicha

From f9977aac7fb35353c8e243f64c25f1fdc3d93cdf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2017 13:05:48 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Add CC0-1.0 to common-licenses

Closes: #859649
---
 policy/ch-docs.rst | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/policy/ch-docs.rst b/policy/ch-docs.rst
index dc02bc6..1de221f 100644
--- a/policy/ch-docs.rst
+++ b/policy/ch-docs.rst
@@ -208,11 +208,12 @@ important because ``copyright`` files must be extractable by mechanical
 means.
 
 Packages distributed under the Apache license (version 2.0), the
-Artistic license, the GNU GPL (versions 1, 2, or 3), the GNU LGPL
-(versions 2, 2.1, or 3), the GNU FDL (versions 1.2 or 1.3), and the
-Mozilla Public License (version 1.1 or 2.0) should refer to the
-corresponding files under ``/usr/share/common-licenses``,  [#]_ rather
-than quoting them in the copyright file.
+Artistic license, the Creative Commons CC0-1.0 license, the GNU GPL
+(versions 1, 2, or 3), the GNU LGPL (versions 2, 2.1, or 3), the GNU FDL
+(versions 1.2 or 1.3), and the Mozilla Public License (version 1.1 or
+2.0) should refer to the corresponding files under
+``/usr/share/common-licenses``,  [#]_ rather than quoting them in the
+copyright file.
 
 You should not use the copyright file as a general ``README`` file. If
 your package has such a file it should be installed in
@@ -341,6 +342,7 @@ please see :ref:`s-dpkgchangelog`.
 .. [#]
    In particular, ``/usr/share/common-licenses/Apache-2.0``,
    ``/usr/share/common-licenses/Artistic``,
+   ``/usr/share/common-licenses/CC0-1.0``,
    ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-1``,
    ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2``,
    ``/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3``,
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