On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 16:25:39 -0700 Paul Hardy <unifoun...@gmail.com> wrote: > Package: base-files > Severity: wishlist > Tags: patch > > Hello, > > I recently formatted the Unicode Data license for the d/copyright file > of a Debian package that I created. I thought I would offer it to > Debian if you are interested. You probably do not want the Copyright > stanza, and you might not want the Comment stanza, but I erred on the > side of too much rather than too little. > > Unicode data files are used in a number of free software packages, > such as linux-libc-dev and the Linux kernel itself. Use of Unicode > data in software is likely to continue growing over time. Thus you > might find this useful.
Duplication of such data among multiple packages does not seem like a feature, and certainly not enough duplication to justify a common-licenses entry. I would hope that most such uses could pull in these data files from a common package.