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I have a repository on Github that I want to license under the MIT license. I have copy pasted parts of two other projects, one which is under an MIT license, and another which is under a BSD 3-Clause License. This is how my license file looks like right now:

* This repository as a whole is under the following MIT license:

// ... my MIT license

* Parts of this project was derived from [Project A](https://github.com/projecta) 
and so the license from it's repository is included below:

// ... Project A's BSD 3-Clause License

* Parts of this project was derived from [Project B](https://github.com/projectB) 
and so the license from it's repository is included below:

// ... Project B's MIT license

Is this proper attribution of the other projects?

Is licensing my project under MIT when I used part of a project with a BSD 3-Clause License okay?

If I incorporated more projects, would I have to do the above for each one? That would make my LICENSE very long...

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  • Does this question deal with your last point?
    – MadHatter ♦
    Oct 26, 2020 at 7:30
  • @MadHatter Yes, it does. I do have to do it for each one. Thanks
    – Ibraheem Ahmed
    Oct 26, 2020 at 15:27
  • No worries - glad you got an answer!
    – MadHatter ♦
    Oct 26, 2020 at 15:34
  • What about the second point: 'Is licensing my project under MIT when I used part of a project with a BSD 3-Clause License okay?'
    – Ibraheem Ahmed
    Oct 26, 2020 at 16:54
  • I'm so sorry, I closed the question prematurely; I have rectified this error. That said, you might also want to take a look at this question, because it applies equally to using MIT code derivatives under BSD.
    – MadHatter ♦
    Oct 26, 2020 at 21:11

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