FS#28772 - [licenses] Add MIT License as a common license

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Wander Nauta (wandernauta) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 14:58 GMT
Last edited by Allan McRae (Allan) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 21:44 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
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Details

The MIT ('Expat') license [1] is used by high-visibility projects like Rails and Lua [2], jQuery, and lots of smaller projects as well. It's OSI-approved and seems more widely-used than most other licenses in the 'common' directory [3].

Please add it as a common license.

Thanks!

[1] http://www.opensource.org/licenses/MIT
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License
[3] http://osrc.blackducksoftware.com/data/licenses/
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Closed by  Allan McRae (Allan)
Sunday, 04 March 2012, 21:44 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Comment by Fabian Homborg (alfa) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 15:29 GMT
From https://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/.
Comment by Wander Nauta (wandernauta) - Sunday, 04 March 2012, 15:32 GMT
Ah, okay. I didn't know that – thanks for your time and sorry for wasting it :)

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