On Friday, January 23, 2026 1:18:11 AM Mountain Standard Time Charles Plessy wrote: > 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.
I would be in favor of adding these two licenses. -- Soren Stoutner [email protected]
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