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Bug#662649: base-files: Request inclusion of Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses



reopen 662649
reassign 662649 debian-policy
thanks

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:03:55PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> 
> > Package: base-files
> > Version: 6.7
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to request that the license text of the Creative Commons
> > Attribution 3.0 and Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 licenses are included in
> > /usr/share/common-licenses. These are DFSG-compatible licenses that are
> > increasingly used for game data (such as sound and graphics) but are
> > also used in other projects. These licenses are quite long, and they add
> > significant bloat to debian/copyright files. Links to the official
> > location of the license text:
> > 
> > CC-BY-3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode
> > CC-BY-SA-3.0: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode 
> 
> Please read "Why isn't license "foo" included in common-licenses?"
> in /usr/share/doc/base-files/README if you want licenses added there.
> 
> If you like recycling, feel free to reopen and reassign this bug to
> debian-policy.

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
      Guus Sliepen <guus@debian.org>

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