Debian Bug report logs - #885698
Update and document criteria for inclusion in /usr/share/common-licenses

Package: debian-policy; Maintainer for debian-policy is Debian Policy Editors <[email protected]>; Source for debian-policy is src:debian-policy (PTS, buildd, popcon).

Reported by: Sean Whitton <[email protected]>

Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2017 09:51:01 UTC

Severity: important

Blocking fix for 1009343: please consider adding Boost-1.0 and Expat to /usr/share/common-licenses, 1013195: Add AGPL-3 to common-licenses, 795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts, 833709: Please add the MIT/Expat license to common-licenses, 883966: debian-policy: please add MIT/Expat to common licenses, 883968: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-SA-3.0 to common licenses, 883969: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-SA-4.0 to common licenses, 884223: debian-policy: please add AGPL-3.0 to common licenses, 884224: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-3.0 to common licenses, 884225: debian-policy: please add CC-BY-4.0 to common licenses, 884226: debian-policy: please add EPL-1.0 to common licenses, 884227: debian-policy: please add zlib to common licenses, 884228: debian-policy: please add OFL-1.1 to common licenses, 910548: base-files - please consider adding /usr/share/common-licenses/Unicode-Data, 924094: Add Artistic-2.0 to common-licenses

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Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:41:03 +0200
From: Matthias Geiger <[email protected]>
To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] 
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Subject: Re: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?
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Hi Russ and Sean,

thanks for for working on this. Just today I worked on a package having
some CC-BY-SA-4.0 licensed content and wasn't too glad at having to copy
the full license. Are there any big blockers for this ? Reading the
previous discussion the techicalities seem to be mostly agreed upon
(unless I missed something ?). 
I think this would be a big improvement for packagers. Let me know if
you need help finalizing any discussion to make this policy.

best,

Matthias Geiger <werdahias>



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