Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2018-07-10 Thread Mattia Rizzolo
On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 03:36:25PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Sure: https://salsa.debian.org/jmtd/policy/merge_requests/1 > > (MR #1? Wow) You did the MR against your own fork instead of the original project ;) (and the salsa project is not configured to accept MRs, so I suppose Sean means

Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2018-07-10 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 03:53:43PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 03:16PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: Thanks for the pointer. I've run it, but I had to make a minor adjustment because it was undercounting: the DEP-5 rules are such that a a version suffix 4.0 and 4 are

Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2018-07-09 Thread Simon McVittie
On Mon, 09 Jul 2018 at 15:16:27 +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > CC-BY-SA3.0 303 Note that some of those will be CC-BY-SA-3.0-US, some will be CC-BY-SA-3.0 Unported, and some might be a different (legally distinct) localization (there are many). Some uses of Creative Commons

Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2018-07-09 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 03:16PM +0100, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Thanks for the pointer. I've run it, but I had to make a minor > adjustment because it was undercounting: the DEP-5 rules are such that > a a version suffix 4.0 and 4 are equivalent. Adjusting the regexps > (for CC 4.0 only.

Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2018-07-09 Thread Jonathan Dowland
On Thu, Jul 05, 2018 at 09:15:05PM +0100, Sean Whitton wrote: At least up until now, licenses haven't been added to the common licenses list unless they are present in the archive a number of times comparable to licenses that are already in common licenses. There is a script in policy.git,

Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2018-07-05 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello Jonathan, On Thu, Jul 05 2018, Jonathan Dowland wrote: > Happy 3 years, bug! > > On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 06:44:36PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: >> Thankfully, the 4.0 series of licenses only seem to have an >> International version, although I don't know whether that will remain >> true

Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2018-07-05 Thread Jonathan Dowland
Happy 3 years, bug! On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 06:44:36PM +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: Thankfully, the 4.0 series of licenses only seem to have an International version, although I don't know whether that will remain true forever. Does anyone object to us proceeding for the 4.0 series of

Bug#795402: base-files: Please add Creative Commons license texts

2015-08-16 Thread Simon McVittie
On Thu, 13 Aug 2015 at 18:41:08 +0100, Tony Houghton wrote: The Creative Commons licenses are quite popular for non-code files and at least some of them are acknowledged to be DFSG-compatible since 3.0. https://wiki.debian.org/DFSGLicenses only explicitly lists CC-BY-SA, but I believe at least