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

[mpan]

>>> 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.
  Approximately the same as what I’ve just said, but less
verbose/precise. :)


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