Stefano Zacchiroli <z...@debian.org> writes: > On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:28:26AM +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote:
>> I am working on packaging the LIO tools [1]. The userspace component is >> licensed under AGPL-3. >> As per Debian bug #621462, the license is not part of common-licenses >> because there aren't many consumers for it, yet. > The data referenced by that buglog are 15 months old. Although I doubt > they've changed enough to overtake the minimum threshold, it would be > nice to re-evaluate them. For one thing, the growth rate might give > insights about the future "market share" of the license. > TBH, AGPL is likely to become a popular license. Having maintainers > include it verbatim in packages nowadays, to factor it out a few years > from now, doesn't seem like a useful exercise... Actually, based on the surveys I've done of licensing information, I think it's unlikely that the AGPL will ever become that popular of a license. I doubt it will even pass the GFDL, which we probably should not have accepted into common-licenses. Due to a combination of a limitation of the Lintian lab format and the file system on lintian.d.o, the Lintian lab is not currently complete, but I can get partial information. I updated the license check script in the Policy tools directory and ran it against the current Lintian lab. It shows 31 packages in the archive covered by the AGPL version 3, which is of course far, far too few to even be thinking about common-licenses at this point. Here's the complete statistics for the licenses that the tools script knows how to search for. The restriction to 31,998 packages is because we've hit the link count maximum for an ext3 directory. I personally consider 1000 packages to be the appropriate level for considering including something new in common-licenses, but I'm fairly conservative on that front. The closest (by far) of the licenses not already listed there, and the best case for inclusion, is the MPL 1.1 at 740 packages. The next closest contender would be the CDDL at 219 packages. AGPL 3 31 Apache 2.0 1474 Artistic 2776 Artistic 2.0 50 BSD (common-licenses) 569 CC-BY 3.0 68 CC-BY-SA 3.0 133 CDDL 219 CeCILL 20 CeCILL-B 11 CeCILL-C 20 GFDL (any) 939 GFDL (symlink) 395 GFDL 1.2 550 GFDL 1.3 79 GPL (any) 21496 GPL (symlink) 8326 GPL 1 2159 GPL 2 10821 GPL 3 3785 LGPL (any) 7977 LGPL (symlink) 2134 LGPL 2 5689 LGPL 2.1 4084 LGPL 3 947 LaTeX PPL 181 LaTeX PPL (any) 131 LaTeX PPL 1.3c 120 MPL 1.1 740 SIL OFL 1.0 16 SIL OFL 1.1 88 Total number of packages: 31998 -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjnq29eq....@windlord.stanford.edu