reassign 1122270 debian-policy thanks On Tue, Dec 09, 2025 at 04:21:40PM +0100, Rafael Laboissière wrote: > 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.
Some time ago, I decided not to decide about this sort of thing. Instead, the procedure is to reach consensus in debian-policy first. (See "Why isn't license "foo" included in common-licenses?" in base-files FAQ) I'm reassigning the bug for you. It looks like there are other bugs asking for similar things: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=795402 (but without any outcome so far). Thanks.
