Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 16:51:24 -0600, Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there would be no sane way to verify the GPL3 was the same GPL3 all over if we were to kill

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Manoj Srivastava dijo [Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:16:17AM -0500]: Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there would be no sane way to verify the GPL3 was the same GPL3 all over if we were to kill

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Russ Allbery
Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: _One_ thing that makes me favor common-licenses is being able to do wide checks to count the number of packages saying to adhere to a given license - As I said, nothing guarantees that the COPYING file in my (upstream) package is the same as in yours (for

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-27 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:47:52 -0600, Gunnar Wolf [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Manoj Srivastava dijo [Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 09:16:17AM -0500]: Of course, I'm playing with the numbers. There are still smaller machines, there are the embedded-minded people, and of course, there would be no sane way

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-26 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Manoj Srivastava dijo [Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:57:30PM -0500]: The question is not how many people have installed the package, the question is how many packages on a given machine have the same copyright, and thus would benefit by savings in disk space by bundling them together

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 12:26:37 -0700, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I'd love to see some sort of guideline for this so that we could make incorporation of new licenses into Policy more objective in the future. I do agree that either priorities or popcon installations or both should be

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-19 Thread Santiago Vila
On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have gotten no further feedback on this proposal. I would like to resolve this bug for the next Policy release one way or the other. Could others reading the Policy list please express an opinion on

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-19 Thread Russ Allbery
Santiago Vila [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Noted, thanks. Feel free to reassign/clone this bug to base-files if you like. I've cloned it to base-files so that we can independently track inclusion in base-files and inclusion of the wording changes in Policy. Thanks! -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have gotten no further feedback on this proposal. I would like to resolve this bug for the next Policy release one way or the other. Could others reading the Policy list please express an opinion on whether we should add the Apache 2.0 license to the

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-05 Thread Raphael Hertzog
On Tue, 04 Mar 2008, Russ Allbery wrote: Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a check today, and there are over 230 binary packages in the archive with the Apache License. (I believe essentially all of them are Apache 2.0, although the simple grep I did made that a bit harder to

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-04 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did a check today, and there are over 230 binary packages in the archive with the Apache License. (I believe essentially all of them are Apache 2.0, although the simple grep I did made that a bit harder to check.) I think that reaches the threshold

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-03-04 Thread Bart Martens
On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 20:12 -0800, Russ Allbery wrote: I have gotten no further feedback on this proposal. I would like to resolve this bug for the next Policy release one way or the other. Could others reading the Policy list please express an opinion on whether we should add the Apache 2.0

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2008-01-08 Thread Russ Allbery
tags 291460 patch thanks I did a check today, and there are over 230 binary packages in the archive with the Apache License. (I believe essentially all of them are Apache 2.0, although the simple grep I did made that a bit harder to check.) I think that reaches the threshold for making it

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2005-01-21 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 291460 debian-policy thanks On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Barry Hawkins wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: base-files Version: 3.1.2 Severity: wishlist Since the Artistic, BSD, GPL, and LGPL licenses are included in /usr/share/common-licenses, would it be

Bug#291460: Inclusion of Apache Software License versions in /usr/share/common-licenses

2005-01-20 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: base-files Version: 3.1.2 Severity: wishlist Since the Artistic, BSD, GPL, and LGPL licenses are included in /usr/share/common-licenses, would it be possible to get the Apache Software License versions 1.1[0] and 2.0[1] included as well? A