On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:20:23PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: > > > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Jari Aalto wrote:
> > >> SUGGESTION > > >> Please add more standard license texts in the directory. Like: > > >> - GFDL > > >> - MIT/X license > > >> - Apache License > > >> - PHP License > > >> - http://creativecommons.org/ (when DFSG ready) > > I agree with the proposal to add the GFDL and Apache 2.0 licenses; they're > > already used by multiple packages and would save copyright file length and > > duplication. > This was my intention. Agreed. I may not be happy with the GFDL as a license, but I imagine it's one of the most common licenses for documentation in Debian and it is allowed for main following the past vote -- and I know there's no consensus in Debian that all of the other licenses included in common-licenses are good licenses either. > > (Although I can see an argument against adding the GFDL > > because not all of its provisions are DFSG-free.) > But the License text itself is "an entity" that can be distributed I > assume, although programs that may refer to certain sections cannot. The purpose of common-licenses is to allow inclusion by reference of a number of commonly used licenses that we need to ship for *legal* reasons. If we start treating common-licenses as *content*, we no longer have a good reason why non-modifiable license texts should be acceptable. > > The MIT/X license cannot be handled in this way. It includes varient text > > (the name of the organization) that changes in each license. It will have > > to continue to live in each individual copyright file. > - I'd also like to see PHP license included if that's possible. > - Perhaps the policy should not mention any specific licenses, but > point readers to visit http://www.debian.org/legal/licenses/ As long as "common-licenses" isn't a misnomer, the PHP license has no business being included in base-files. It's a broken license that is unsuitable for any software that isn't PHP itself. Cheers, -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]