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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Subject: Re: What licenses should be included in /usr/share/common-licenses?
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On Sep 10, Enrico Zini <[email protected]> wrote:

> I like this. I'd say that even if a license is shorter than 25 lines I'd
> appreciate to be able to link to it instead of copypasting it.
Me too.

> I like to be able to fill the license field with a value, after checking
> that the upstream license didn't diverge from what it looks like. I'd
> love to use SPDX IDs there, for example. In an ideal world, I'd like to
> autofill debian/copyright with SPDX IDs from upstream metadata. Having a
> link to a file goes closer to having a declarative license ID.
Agreed.

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