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

mpan archml-y1vf3axu at mpan.pl
Sat Nov 3 23:24:14 UTC 2018


> It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added?
  Because there is no MIT or 1/2/3-clause BSD license. There are
hundreds of independent, barely related licenses that are quite similar
and, therefore, are considered together as a class of MIT licens*es*
(note the plural), 1/2/3-clause BSD licens*es* etc. Despite many of them
may be very similar and, in fact, usually they share huge portion of the
text, they are formally different agreements.

  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.




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