Bug#768292: Let's add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? (was Re: Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files)

2014-11-11 Thread Simon McVittie
On 10/11/14 22:41, Charles Plessy wrote: For the avoidance of doubt, I have also counted the numbers for other CC licenses; here is the result. ... CC-BY 1.011 CC-BY 2.0 1 CC-BY 2.533 CC-BY 3.0 311 CC-BY-SA 1.0 2

Bug#768292: Let's add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? (was Re: Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files)

2014-11-10 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 09:13:21AM -0800, Russ Allbery a écrit : How about adding both MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? Given those numbers, I think we should. And possibly also CC-BY-SA 3.0 while we're at it. Hi Russ, I fully agree. For the avoidance of doubt, I have also counted

Bug#768292: Let's add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? (was Re: Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files)

2014-11-09 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Sun, Nov 09, 2014 at 08:21:58AM +0900, Mike Hommey a écrit : Note the iceweasel copyright file uses that stanza for both MPL-1.1 and MPL-2.0, and is still about 100K long. Even if MPL-2.0 ends up in the common set of licenses, that would still leave the MPL-1.1 being a problem, while, in

Bug#768292: Let's add the MPLs to /usr/share/common-licenses ? (was Re: Bug#768292: debian-policy: please allow copyright file to refer to license text in separate files)

2014-11-09 Thread Russ Allbery
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: here is the current license count that I just calculated on the lintian lab (lilburn.debian.org) using tools/licence-count from the Policy's Git repository. [...] MPL 1.11146 MPL 2.0 853 I think that's a lot higher