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The MIT license text begins with "Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files".
What exactly are considered to be "associated documentation files"?
For example, the payment service Stripe releases their python library under the MIT license. Does this mean that all of the documentation for that library on their 'docs' website is covered by the MIT license (e.g. this page).
By convention, the MIT license in the LICENSE or COPYING file at the top directory of a source code repository applies to all files in that source code repository, unless a different license is explicitly applied to a specific set of files in that source code repository.
For e.g. libuv applies the MIT license to its overall source code repository, but explicitly licenses its documentation (presumably under the docs directory) under the CC BY 4.0 license.
The libuv README states:
libuv is licensed under the MIT license. Check the LICENSE and LICENSE-extra files.
The documentation is licensed under the CC BY 4.0 license. Check the LICENSE-docs file.
If libuv did not specify CC BY 4.0, then the "associated documentation" part of its MIT license would also apply to libuv's documentation, only in that same source code repository.
