Bug#565884: Please include CeCILL* licenses in common-licenses

[Santiago Vila]

reassign 565884 debian-policy
thanks

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Thibaut Paumard wrote:

> Package: base-files
> Version: 5.0.0
> Severity: wishlist
>
> Hi,
>
> there is a growing body of packages (or at least files) under [1]CeCILL license in the archive. The CeCILL licenses are wordy and the project would benefit from having them in /usr/share/common-licenses.
>
> [1] http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html

The base-files FAQ says this is something to be decided by the
debian-policy group, so even if this bug already generated a small
amount of discussion, I'm reassigning it to debian-policy.

Thanks.

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[Russ Allbery]

Thibaut Paumard <pau...@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

> there is a growing body of packages (or at least files) under [1]CeCILL
> license in the archive. The CeCILL licenses are wordy and the project
> would benefit from having them in /usr/share/common-licenses.

> [1] http://www.cecill.info/licences.en.html

As revealed in subsequent discussion when this bug was originally filed,
the number of packages using CeCILL licenses is fairly small (under 20 at
the last survey), and there are multiple different forms of the license,
so each license is used only a handful of times.

While we've never set a firm numeric limit for license consideration in
common-licenses, the general feeling is that it should be at least a
couple of hundred, so this seems to be well short.

I'm accordingly marking this Policy bug as rejected. It will remain open
for some time in case anyone has any objections or disagrees with this
analysis.

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