Hi Baptiste, Quoting Baptiste BEAUPLAT (2019-12-14 11:55:40) > Yesterday, I was looking for the CC-BY license text to start a new > project. > > I had to dig up to CreativeCommons's github repository to find the > text version. (I didn't want to copy/paste the HTML version on their > website). > > My question to you is: "Would it be interesting for others if I were > to create a package with missing text version of licenses?" > > Currently, in debian, we have the /usr/share/common-licenses/ that > includes a couple of one, but is missing CC- and MIT for instance. I > would find it useful to just cp the file to new projects. > > @debian-legal: How text license are qualified regarding their > licenses? Can 'legal text' can be considered as public domain and > packaged with whatever license (MIT/GPL) ?
A rich collection of Free license fulltexts is relevant, not only for our users to pick from (even on a lonely island) and copy into new development project, but also as reference e.g. for testing license checkers. What is _not_ helpful in my opinion, however, is yet another manually curated selection of random license texts. What I see generally useful is to package this: https://github.com/spdx/license-list-XML If you are interested in license checkers, then please consider joining others with same interest at the irc channel #licenses on OFTC.net. Related is also https://wiki.debian.org/CopyrightReviewTools Kind regards, - Jonas Maintainer and current upstream author of Licensecheck -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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