Bug#662649: base-files: Request inclusion of Creative Commons licenses in /usr/share/common-licenses
On Mon, 5 Mar 2012, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> 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
I've run statistics on these from time to time, and they're not that
widely used. The most recent numbers, from last September, of packages
using these licenses are:
CC-BY 3.0 68
CC-BY-SA 3.0 133
By comparison, the least-used license family in common-licenses (the GFDL)
is used by 939 packages.
It's possible that this has changed dramatically since last September, but
it seems somewhat unlikely.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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