[arch-general] Add MIT Licence to /usr/share/licences/common

[John Ramsden]

It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added?

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  John Ramsden

On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit :
> > I'm in the process of adding a new package to the AUR, when I noticed 
> > that the MIT Licence - which this program is licensed under - is not 
> > available under /usr/share/licenses/common. Seeing that it's a fairly 
> > popular license that is copied by a number of packages (many of them 
> > Rust based: find /usr/share/licenses -name "*MIT*"), I think it would be 
> > beneficial if there could be a copy of the MIT license in the licenses 
> > package.
> >
> > I've attached a diff of my edits to licenses trunk. Note that I copied 
> > the licence file from rust/LICENCE-MIT and ran updpkgsums. Also, it 
> > seems the PHP-3.0 licence has changed, and its checksum has updated as 
> > well.
> 
> Please read https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#license
> 
> Especially the first bullet point.
> 
> Regards,
> Bruno
> 
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