Hi, Am 13.12.2017 um 19:10 schrieb Jonathan Nieder: > Hi, > > Markus Koschany wrote: > >> as discussed on debian-devel [1] I would like to request that more DFSG >> licenses are added to /usr/share/common-licenses and that package >> maintainers are allowed to reference them. >> >> License: AGPL-3.0 >> Source: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/agpl-3.0.de.html >> Example packages: >> https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#GNU_AFFERO_GENERAL_PUBLIC_LICENSE_.28AGPL-3.29 > > What commonly installed packages use this license? Is ghostscript the > only one, or are there others? Actually my idea was not to distinguish between "commonly installed" packages and simply "used in packages" anymore. Maintainers will roughly save the same amount of time by not copying this license. I also assume that by adding all those license to common-licenses users will have more disk space available in the end. Apart from my example packages you can find this license also in the following packages: Just go to codesearch.debian.net and use AGPL path:debian/copyright as your search query. Notable packages are pulseaudio, debian-goodies, gnutls28, pelican, and many more. I expect that more network or web applications will use this license in the future. > I'm neutral on this change. ghostscript is installed on most > installations and uses this license and unfortunately pieces of it get > incorporated into other packages like poppler-data. If it weren't for > ghostscript then I would be against this change. > > (src/utils/qpaeq in pulseaudio is about to become a non-example, since > its licensing was simplified to LGPL upstream.) > > Thanks and hope that helps, > Jonathan Regards, Markus
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