reassign 284340 debian-policy thanks On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Francesco Poli wrote:
> Package: base-files > Version: 3.0.2 > Severity: wishlist > > > Please remove reference to a specific copyright holder (The Regents of > the University of California) in /usr/share/common-licenses/BSD and > rename it 3-clause-BSD. Including only one narrow variant of the > BSD license seems highly error-prone. > > Moreover, please add 2 clause BSD license, Expat (a.k.a. MIT) license, > and X11 (a.k.a. MIT) license in /usr/share/common-licenses/ > > Refer to http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/11/msg00158.html and > following few replies. > > > > In other words, I would think that the following licenses belong in > /usr/share/common-licenses/ : > [...] You probably have not read base-files FAQ. Please read the answer to this question: Q. Why isn't license "foo" included in common-licenses? IMHO, the licenses you propose to be added to /usr/share/common-licenses are short enough that no disk space is saved at all by having a "single" copy in base-files. For this reason I think we could even remove the current BSD license itself, since it's just 1499 bytes long.
