On Tue, 2026-06-16 at 12:27 +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > > the listing of the BSD license as an example of a free license in the > DFSG predates the 3-clause BSD license, no BSD license with fewer > than > 4 clauses existed at that time: > > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-announce/1997/msg00017.html > > 4 Jul 97 > > The "GPL", "BSD", and "Artistic" licenses are examples of licenses > that we consider "free".
Perhaps we *should* have that GR, since all three of those licenses are deprecated now, aren't they? If it were written today we would likely use a much different set: GPL-3 LGPL-3 Artistic-2 BSD 3-or-fewer-clause Apache-2 OFL-1.1 ODBL-1.0 And perhaps that would be enough exemplars - or perhaps not. It is surely worth considering a GR to provide better exemplars. We could add a clause saying that packages currently in Debian that are licensed under the BSD-4-Clause are strongly encouraged to talk to upstream about switching to the BSD-3-Clause, but otherwise we will accept them as-is for the time being. Cheers, Andrew. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Porirua, New Zealand +64 (27) 288 6741 Be open to other people -- they may enrich your dream. ----------------------------------------------------------------------
