Le Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 09:13:21AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > > How about adding both MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? > > Given those numbers, I think we should. And possibly also CC-BY-SA 3.0 > while we're at it.
Hi Russ, I fully agree. For the avoidance of doubt, I have also counted the numbers for other CC licenses; here is the result. AGPL 3 294 Apache 2.0 4740 Artistic 3811 Artistic 2.0 195 BSD (common-licenses) 347 CC-BY 1.0 11 CC-BY 2.0 1 CC-BY 2.5 33 CC-BY 3.0 311 CC-BY-SA 1.0 2 CC-BY-SA 2.0 32 CC-BY-SA 2.5 16 CC-BY-SA 3.0 883 CC-BY-SA 4.0 23 CDDL 504 CeCILL 54 CeCILL-B 50 CeCILL-C 33 GFDL (any) 2155 GFDL (symlink) 539 GFDL 1.2 1074 GFDL 1.3 619 GPL (any) 40659 GPL (symlink) 7641 GPL 1 3657 GPL 2 25546 GPL 3 11363 LGPL (any) 18315 LGPL (symlink) 2466 LGPL 2 14666 LGPL 2.1 10422 LGPL 3 2644 LaTeX PPL 76 LaTeX PPL (any) 197 LaTeX PPL 1.3c 184 MPL 1.1 1146 MPL 2.0 847 SIL OFL 1.0 13 SIL OFL 1.1 567 Total number of packages: 73292 By the way, would you and the other Policy editors mind if I would save these numbers in the Git repository, for insance in a text file named tools/license-check.latest.txt ? This way, it will be easier to keep an eye on the evolution of these numbers. As far as I could see with search engine, the previous number for MPL-1.1 was 740. https://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2011/12/msg00130.html For the CC licenses, it was: CC-BY 3.0 68 CC-BY-SA 3.0 133 https://bugs.debian.org/662649#31 Before taking final action, shall we consider adding also CC-BY 3.0 (not as popular as the SA variant, but this may avoid some errors), and the 4.0 version of the licenses ? The rationale for using the 4.0 version is that if their use increases like for the 3.0 versions (and I would be surprised if not), then waiting to add them to /usr/share/common-licenses is giving double work to the maintainers: first they have to include them in debian/copyright, and then they will have to remove them. This said, I do not have a strong opinion. Once this is discussed, I will propose a patch to the Policy. After it is properly seconded, I will ping the Lintian maintainers (please remind me if I forget). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
