Am 27.12.2017 um 22:55 schrieb Russ Allbery: > 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: CC-BY-4.0 >>> Source: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ >>> Example packages: >>> https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses#Creative_Commons_Attribution_unported_.28CC-BY.29_v4.0 > >> Seconded (for CC-BY-SA 4.0 unported, not other Creative Commons >> licenses). > > This doesn't seem warranted given current usage, unless we change our > model here to not care (as much) about usage. > > CC-BY 1.0 2 > CC-BY 2.0 3 > CC-BY 2.5 11 > CC-BY 3.0 165 > CC-BY 4.0 28 > CC-BY-SA 1.0 3 > CC-BY-SA 2.0 44 > CC-BY-SA 2.5 14 > CC-BY-SA 3.0 285 > CC-BY-SA 4.0 61 > > 4.0 is a pretty niche license right now. Maybe that's expected to grow at > the cost of 3.0, though.... 4.0 was released in November 2013, so it's still relatively new and you can't simply bump version 3.0 to 4.0. The Creative Commons licenses are ubiquitous when it comes to artwork, images, sound, music and other media files. As previously mentioned I'm in favor of dropping the criterion of license popularity because it is misleading and even arbitrary in my opinion. Markus
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