Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2010-07-17 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Given these facts, I'm personally currently leaning against including > this license in common-licenses, but I'm still open to being convinced, > particularly if you think that a broader search for more versions of the > license will turn up another significant cluster of p

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2010-06-10 Thread Russ Allbery
Russ Allbery writes: > Hilmar Preusse writes: >> In the moment we have the situation that we are requested to add the >> license to all TL packages, instead of just adding it to one and put >> only referers into the others (#473216). This gives us 1.8 MB of >> license files, which could be saved

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2010-06-10 Thread Bas Wijnen
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 01:31:53PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > Hilmar Preusse writes: > > >> In the moment we have the situation that we are requested to add the > >> license to all TL packages, instead of just adding it to one and put > >> only referers into the others

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2008-06-05 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 16 May 2008 09:33:38 -0700, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > More relevantly than the total size, IMO (1.8MB isn't really very > much) is that according to popcon, one-seventh of our systems have at > least texlive-base installed. If every texlive-base installation > would benefi

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2008-05-19 Thread Hilmar Preuße
On 16.05.08 Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hi *, > > In the moment we have the situation that we are requested to add > > the license to all TL packages, instead of just adding it to one > > and put only referers into the others (#473216). Thi

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2008-05-16 Thread Russ Allbery
Hilmar Preusse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the moment we have the situation that we are requested to add the > license to all TL packages, instead of just adding it to one and put > only referers into the others (#473216). This gives us 1.8 MB of license > files, which could be saved of the L

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2008-05-16 Thread Hilmar Preusse
On 16.05.08 Bas Wijnen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:19:55PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: Hi, > Not every acceptable license needs to be in policy. In fact none of > them do. The only place in policy where licenses are mentioned, is > about /usr/share/common-licenses.

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2008-05-16 Thread Bas Wijnen
Hi, On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:19:55PM +0200, Hilmar Preusse wrote: > in the beginning of 2003 it was discussed if the LPPL is DFSG > compatible. IIRC the result was the LPPL v1.3a^1, which is assumed to > be compatible to the DFSG. If texlive is using it, then I would hope so. Otherwise it shou

Bug#481491: debian-policy: please add LPPL v1.3a to Policy

2008-05-16 Thread Hilmar Preusse
Package: debian-policy Version: 3.7.3.0 Severity: wishlist Hi all, in the beginning of 2003 it was discussed if the LPPL is DFSG compatible. IIRC the result was the LPPL v1.3a^1, which is assumed to be compatible to the DFSG. Hence we (the TeX Live maintainers) would like to see that license ment