Package: base-files
Version: 14
Severity: normal
Dear Maintainer,
Are there any plans to include the full text of Creative Commons licenses
beyond CC0-1.0 in the directory /usr/share/common-licenses?
I ask because I have noticed an increasing number of packages containing
files being released under one of the CC licenses. Here is the count for
one of my trixie systems:
$ grep "^License:" CC-" /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | wc -l
657
In addition, including the full text of these licenses in
/usr/share/common-licenses would save substantial disk space in Debian
systems. For example, the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text in one of the
/usr/share/doc/*.copyright files on my system is over 400 lines long.
Best,
Rafael Laboissière
