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

[Doug Newgard]

On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 00:24:14 +0100
mpan <archml-y1vf3axu at mpan.pl> wrote:

> > 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.

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.