Re: Bug#541703: base-files: Please include FreeBSD license

2010-06-11 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 12:51:36PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : The purpose of /usr/share/common-licenses (with one exception, see below) is not to accumulate good free software licenses, but rather primarily to save space both in the archive and on installed systems. For example, there

Re: Bug#541703: base-files: Please include FreeBSD license

2010-06-11 Thread Ben Finney
Charles Plessy ple...@debian.org writes: I would like to add that it helps to make the copyright summary much more readable, when instead of having the information buried between long copies of common licenses, there is their boilerplate and a link to their full text. This is also addressed

Re: Bug#541703: base-files: Please include FreeBSD license

2009-09-01 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 541703 debian-policy thanks In this bug, I'm asked to include the FreeBSD license (which is not exactly the same as the BSD license) into common-licenses. As usual, I delegate this decision to the policy group (hence the reassign). [ IMHO, the proposed license is so small that we don't

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2009-09-01 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: reassign 541703 debian-policy Bug #541703 [base-files] base-files: Please include FreeBSD license Bug reassigned from package 'base-files' to 'debian-policy'. Bug No longer marked as found in versions 5.0.0ubuntu6. thanks Stopping processing