Re: [arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common
It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added? -- John Ramsden On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote:
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 11:53:45AM -0700, John Ramsden via arch-general wrote:
It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added?
I believe the reasoning for that is they include program-specific copyright information, so you can't just use a reference copy of the license in this case. - Luke English
Saturday, November 3, 2018 7:53 PM, John Ramsden via arch-general <arch-general@archlinux.org> dixit:
It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added?
Look at them: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT For one, they're copyright notices. And they're individual for each project. The license states that the above copyright notice must be included in the license which is distributed with the project. So they can't be generalized. cheers! mar77i Sent with ProtonMail Secure Email.
In the above explanation I do not support any of the sides. Whether classes that share 100% of important content and 99% of formatting content, should be considered similar enough to have a shared entry in Arch’s licenses directory, is a separate decision. I am just explaining.
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 00:24:14 +0100 mpan <archml-y1vf3axu@mpan.pl> wrote:
It has nothing to do with any of that. It's simply that those licenses have project-specific copyright information added to them and cannot be generic.
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 01:21:28AM +0100, mpan wrote:
You didn't mention the word copyright once, you just managed to confuse people, myself included. Orwell said "never use a long word where a short one will do", and this question has already been answered multiple times. Can we close the thread now? - L
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Doug Newgard
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