Adding MIT License to Common Licenses
Tollef Fog Heen
tfheen at err.no
Fri Aug 1 18:12:10 BST 2008
]] Scott Kitterman
| The current [1]'permissive' license in common-licenses is BSD. It
| has some issues and while quite common, is not, I think an ideal
| permissive license to use when one is looking for a license in that
| category. The [2] MIT license is reasonably common and, IMO, a
| better choice for new projects.
The sole reason for common-licenses is to save disk space rather than
repeating fairly large licences such as the GPL. How many packages
use the MIT licence?
| I'm specifically doing this now because of some helper scripts I
| want to get added to the Postfix package that I'd prefer to license
| MIT and Lamont would prefer something in common-licenses. This
| seemed like the approach that would be helpful to the most people.
Adding a licence to base-file because Lamont would prefer a licence
from common-licenses seems absurd to me, and I see absolutely no point
in diverging from Debian at this point. Amongst other things, it
would make people refer to /usr/share/common-licenses/MIT which would
make those packages unsuitable for Debian.
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Tollef Fog Heen
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