Bug#884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses
Markus Koschany <apo@debian.org> writes:
> Why do we add the BSD license to common-licenses but not MIT and zlib?
I'm not sure why the BSD license was included in common-licenses
originally. My theory was that it was to include all the licenses
mentioned by name in the DFSG. However, the version in common-licenses is
specific to code whose copyright is held by the University of California,
so it's not very useful. Including it there in that form was probably a
mistake.
We found multiple packages in Debian that referred to the common-licenses
version of the BSD license but weren't actually released under that
license. That's why Policy now says to not reference the version of the
BSD license in common-licenses.
We haven't removed it because it's very hard to do that. There are still
quite a few packages in the archive that reference it (many possibly
incorrectly).
See https://bugs.debian.org/284340.
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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