Le Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 06:41:08PM +0100, Tony Houghton a écrit :
I think it would be helpful to add the texts for these to /usr/share/common-licenses so that they don't have to be included in the copyright files of multiple packages.
Hello everybody, more than 10 years later, I can only say, the more packages we have, the the more copyright files we have that refer to the Creative Commmons ShareAlike 3.0 or 4.0 licenses. And importantly they are present on fairly common installations. In particular installing GRUB 2 triggers the presence of multiple copies of CC-BY-SA-3.0, which is also present in mawk and libglib2.0-0t64. The 4.0 version is also present in libglib2.0-0t64 as well as in nftables. Thus on a large number of non-virtual systems, adding these two license to /usr/share/common-licenses will actually save some space. On the other hand, I have not looked at minimal containers nor at the most frequent packages installed on top of them, and it is possible that many of them do not ship CC-licensed software, so their size may increase of ~50 kiB. Obviously, what I am trying to save is not a few kibibytes of disk space, but the time of those who write or read debian/copyright files. And the point I would like to make is that what matters is not just how popular is a license but also how popular is the package that uses it. Would you consider adding these license to /usr/share/common-licenses? Have a nice day, Charles -- Charles Plessy Nagahama, Yomitan, Okinawa, Japan Debian Med packaging team http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tooting from work, https://fediscience.org/@charles_plessy Tooting from home, https://framapiaf.org/@charles_plessy
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