Bug#910548: base-files - please consider adding /usr/share/common-licenses/Unicode-Data
On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:25:39 -0700 Paul Hardy <unifoundry@gmail.com> wrote:
> Package: base-files
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: patch
>
> Hello,
>
> I recently formatted the Unicode Data license for the d/copyright file
> of a Debian package that I created. I thought I would offer it to
> Debian if you are interested. You probably do not want the Copyright
> stanza, and you might not want the Comment stanza, but I erred on the
> side of too much rather than too little.
>
> Unicode data files are used in a number of free software packages,
> such as linux-libc-dev and the Linux kernel itself. Use of Unicode
> data in software is likely to continue growing over time. Thus you
> might find this useful.
Duplication of such data among multiple packages does not seem like a
feature, and certainly not enough duplication to justify a
common-licenses entry. I would hope that most such uses could pull in
these data files from a common package.
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