Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses
On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 01:56:44PM -0800, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:
> > 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: OFL-1.1
> >> Source: https://opensource.org/licenses/OFL-1.1
> >> Example packages:
> >> https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#The_SIL_Open_Font_License
>
> > Seconded.
>
> license-count says this makes sense:
>
> SIL OFL 1.0 12
> SIL OFL 1.1 159
>
> via the historic criteria of more usage than the least popular license
> already in common-licenses (GFDL 1.3 at 138 packages).
This is not an entirely reasonnable criterion, though. The GFDL is losing
popularity. At some point there might be zero packages under the
GFDL 1.3, at which point the criterion would dictate that all licenses
should be included.
Also If you look at the license-count email archive, you will see that the
GFDL 1.3 should probably not have been included in the first place
(it was expected that more packages would migrate from 1.2 to 1.3).
So it makes better sense to count GFDL 1.2+1.3 as a single number.
The usual threshold for inclusion was much higher than 138.
Cheers,
--
Bill. <ballombe@debian.org>
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