[SOLVED] Why aren't the MIT/BSD licenses in the license package?

The PKGBUILD Wiki page states that
The BSD, MIT, zlib/png and Python licenses are special cases and could not be included in the licenses package.
Can someone explain why this is?  I rather like both the BSD and MIT licenses.
Last edited by pgoetz (2014-03-31 20:38:00)

Maybe you should read the entire section!
The BSD, MIT, zlib/png and Python licenses are special cases and could not be included in the licenses package. For the sake of the license array, it is treated as a common license (license=('BSD'), license=('MIT'), license=('ZLIB') and license=('Python')) but technically each one is a custom license because each one has its own copyright line. Any packages licensed under these four should have its own unique license stored in /usr/share/licenses/pkgname. Some packages may not be covered by a single license. In these cases, multiple entries may be made in the license array, e.g. license=('GPL' 'custom:name of license').
"but technically each one is a custom license because each one has its own copyright line."

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