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Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses

From	Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses
Date	2025-12-09 16:30 +0100
Message-ID	<M07P3-1B9B-3@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
Organization	Debian GNU/Linux

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Package: base-files
Version: 14
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Are there any plans to include the full text of Creative Commons licenses 
beyond CC0-1.0 in the directory /usr/share/common-licenses?

I ask because I have noticed an increasing number of packages containing 
files being released under one of the CC licenses. Here is the count for 
one of my trixie systems:

    $ grep "^License:" CC-" /usr/share/doc/*/copyright | wc -l
    657

In addition, including the full text of these licenses in 
/usr/share/common-licenses would save substantial disk space in Debian 
systems. For example, the CC-BY-SA-4.0 license text in one of the 
/usr/share/doc/*.copyright files on my system is over 400 lines long.

Best,

Rafael Laboissière

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Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> - 2025-12-09 16:30 +0100
  Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-12-09 16:40 +0100
    Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> - 2025-12-09 17:40 +0100
      Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-12-09 17:40 +0100
        Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> - 2025-12-09 19:40 +0100
      Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2025-12-09 19:20 +0100
        Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 08:40 +0100
          Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 09:40 +0100
            Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 11:20 +0100
      Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 10:50 +0100
        Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 11:30 +0100
        Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Sean Whitton <spwhitton@spwhitton.name> - 2025-12-10 14:10 +0100
          Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de> - 2025-12-10 14:30 +0100
            Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 16:40 +0100
  Bug#1122270: base-files: Adding more Creative Commons licenses Santiago Vila <sanvila@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 11:30 +0100
  Bug#1122270: block bug report Rafael Laboissière <rafael@debian.org> - 2025-12-10 16:50 +0100

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