Andreas Barth said on Wed, May 12, 2004 at 11:15:06AM +0200,: > For me, I want the LGPL for a very simple reason on this web page: > It's quite often used (even so often that it is stored in > /usr/share/common-licenses), and I think that on our web page we > should not only have the quite new licenses, but also the "old > stuff".
So just say that Debian policy is to put licences x, y, and z at such-and-such place because so many packages in Debian are licensed under those licenses by the respective copyright holders. `Approved DFSG-free' is a tag we cannot easily remove, and as (my very short) experience shows, new issues may crop up. Moreover, what is `DFSG free' is the package(*), and copyright holder(s)' interpretation of the license. (*) So that packages requiring Sun/Blackdown java go into contrib -- "Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty"