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

[Luke English]

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 
> -- 
>   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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