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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From: Hideki Yamane <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?
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On Sat, 09 Sep 2023 22:41:48 -0700
Russ Allbery <[email protected]> wrote:
> >  How about just pointing SPDX licenses URL for whole license text and
> >  lists DFSG-free licenses from that? (but yes, we should adjust short
> >  name of licenses for DEP-5 and SPDX for it).
> 
> Can we do this legally?  If we can, it certainly has substantial merits,
> but I'm not sure that this satisfies the requirement in a lot of licenses
> to distribute a copy of the license along with the work.  Some licenses
> may allow that to be provided as a URL, but I don't think they all do
> (which makes sense since people may receive Debian on physical media and
> not have Internet access).

 Hmm, how about providing license-common package and that depends on
 "license-common-list", and ISO image provides both, then? It would be
 no regressions.


 I expect license-common-list data as below

 license-short-name: URL
 GPL-2: file:///usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2
 Boost-1.0: https://spdx.org/licenses/BSL-1.0.html

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