Bug#859649: debian-policy: Please add CC0-1.0 to common-licenseso
Bill Allombert <ballombe@debian.org> writes:
> The point is that if there are licenses not in common-licenses that are
> much more common than CC0, it would make more sense to add them rather
> than CC0.
license-count says that CC0-1.0 looks pretty good. Here are the complete
results with patterns for CC0-1.0 added. (Note that this is matching on
any License:.*CC0 pattern in debian/copyright, which could be an overcount
if there are any other versions than 1.0.)
AGPL 3 189
Apache 2.0 2672
Artistic 3804
Artistic 2.0 200
BSD (common-licenses) 104
CC-BY 1.0 2
CC-BY 2.0 3
CC-BY 2.5 11
CC-BY 3.0 165
CC-BY 4.0 28
CC-BY-SA 1.0 3
CC-BY-SA 2.0 44
CC-BY-SA 2.5 14
CC-BY-SA 3.0 285
CC-BY-SA 4.0 61
CC0-1.0 195
CDDL 56
CeCILL 18
CeCILL-B 7
CeCILL-C 10
GFDL (any) 534
GFDL (symlink) 88
GFDL 1.2 314
GFDL 1.3 138
GPL (any) 18429
GPL (symlink) 2741
GPL 1 3541
GPL 2 9564
GPL 3 5041
LGPL (any) 4552
LGPL (symlink) 484
LGPL 2 3510
LGPL 2.1 2520
LGPL 3 981
LaTeX PPL 33
LaTeX PPL (any) 43
LaTeX PPL 1.3c 34
MPL 1.1 224
MPL 2.0 176
SIL OFL 1.0 12
SIL OFL 1.1 159
Total number of packages: 30676
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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