On Mon, Apr 27, 2026 at 10:02:01AM +0200, Mechtilde Stehmann wrote: > Hello > > As a member of the new DFSG team, I would like to restart the discussion > from September 2023.. > > The issue at hand is the inclusion of additional license texts in the > base-files package. > > In doing so, I would like to continue Russ Albery’s proposal [0]. > > Licenses will be included in common-licenses if they meet all of the > following criteria: > > * The license is DFSG-free.
Do you mean the license text or the license itself ? > * Exactly the same license wording is used by all works covered by it. > * The license applies to at least 100 source packages in Debian. > * The license text is longer than 25 lines. For the remaining licenses, I have made a proposal to fill in debian/copyright at build time from the list of SPDX identifier. This is still an option if the NEW team does not reject it. Cheers, -- Bill. <[email protected]> Imagine a large red swirl here.
