On 14-Dec-00, 17:20 (CST), Chris Waters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Dec 14, 2000 at 01:09:33PM -0500, Susan G. Kleinmann wrote: > > > But I think we're all hoping that the FDL actually becomes common, > > and putting it into the common-licenses directory is one step toward > > making that happen. > > I would describe it more as putting the cart before the horse. > > At the moment, common-licenses is just that. Licenses that _are_ > common. Perhaps we can put FDL in: > > /usr/share/licences-we-hope-become-common-someday
Normally I'd agree with this ("policy should follow practice"), except for one possibility. It might be that some software/document writers *look* in /usr/share/common-licenses and pick the one they like best[1]. So yes, it may be a "license we hope becomes common", but we could perhaps help it along. And I don't see any real negative by having it there. Steve [1] Of course, reading debian-legal shows that most writers prefer to make up their own crappy licenses that don't do what they think they do and usually make things undistributable. Sigh. -- Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>