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FS#11566 - Add MIT license to the licenses package

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Ramses de Norre (Ramses_de_Norre) - Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 10:52 GMT
Last edited by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Sunday, 28 September 2008, 17:31 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version None
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

Could the MIT licence be added to the licences package? Info about the licence can be found here:
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html .
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Closed by  Roman Kyrylych (Romashka)
Sunday, 28 September 2008, 17:31 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 13:15 GMT
I don't think a generic MIT license is useful:
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

This is different for each and every package.
Comment by Allan McRae (Allan) - Wednesday, 24 September 2008, 04:04 GMT
Agreed. From: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Licenses

The MIT, BSD, zlib/libpng and Python licenses are special cases and cannot be included in the 'common' licenses pkg. For the sake of the license variable, it's treated like a common license (license=('BSD'), license=('MIT'), license=('ZLIB') or license=('Python')) but for the sake of the filesystem, it's a custom license, because each one has its own copyright line. Each MIT, BSD, zlib/libpng or Python licensed package should have its unique license stored in /usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/.

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