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

2018-11-03 Thread Luke English
On Sun, Nov 04, 2018 at 01:21:28AM +0100, mpan 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

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

2018-11-03 Thread 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 considere

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

2018-11-03 Thread Doug Newgard via arch-general
On Sun, 4 Nov 2018 00:24:14 +0100 mpan 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 q

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

2018-11-03 Thread 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

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

2018-11-03 Thread mar77i via arch-general
Saturday, November 3, 2018 7:53 PM, John Ramsden via arch-general dixit: > It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them > special that they cannot be added? Look at them: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT For one,

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

2018-11-03 Thread Luke English
On Sat, Nov 03, 2018 at 11:53:45AM -0700, John Ramsden via arch-general wrote: > It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them > special that they cannot be added? > I believe the reasoning for that is they include program-specific copyright information, so you can'

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

2018-11-03 Thread John Ramsden via arch-general
It states MIT/BSD are special cases, just out of curiousity, what makes them special that they cannot be added? -- John Ramsden On Sat, Nov 3, 2018, at 1:22 AM, Bruno Pagani via arch-general wrote: > Hi, > > Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit : > > I'm in the

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

2018-11-03 Thread Bruno Pagani via arch-general
Hi, Le 03/11/2018 à 08:46, Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general a écrit : > I'm in the process of adding a new package to the AUR, when I noticed > that the MIT Licence - which this program is licensed under - is not > available under /usr/share/licenses/common. Seeing that it's a fairly > popul

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

2018-11-03 Thread Stephen Gregoratto via arch-general
I'm in the process of adding a new package to the AUR, when I noticed that the MIT Licence - which this program is licensed under - is not available under /usr/share/licenses/common. Seeing that it's a fairly popular license that is copied by a number of packages (many of them Rust based: find