Questions tagged [mit]
Use this tag for questions pertaining to the MIT/Expat license or the MIT/X11 license.
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If I’m using someone’s open source project, do I need to use the same license the open-source project uses?
I’m using the Google Open Source Project 2016 (and others from Github using MIT and Apache licenses) and it has an Apache license. Do I need to add the Apache license to my project, too? If so, do I ...
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Final product warranty vs MIT licensed FreeRTOS warranty disclaimer
I want to base my embedded project on FreeRTOS, modify the original source code of FreeRTOS (strip some functionality, remove some unused code, increase reliability), write my application specific ...
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Someone is offering money to use my software without a license. Is it a scam?
I am the creator of an open source project licensed under MIT and GPL.
Recently, someone has reached out saying that these licenses do not fit their needs, and that they would like to pay me to be ...
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Should I use my own license in a fork of another GitHub repository, which I've revamped completely?
Background
I am the owner of an open-source theme for Hugo named hugo-dream-plus which, as the name implies, is an upgraded version of hugo-theme-dream.
Note that hugo-theme-dream is licensed ...
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Can your MIT library use an LGPL library?
If you use a library with LGPL 2.1 license (e.g., PHPMailer) in your also open source library, can you release your library as MIT license if you didn't actually modify PHPMailer?
E.g., All you did ...
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Can I use proprietary library in a GPL-Compatible library loaded on a gpl Program?
I am asking mainly to be sure.
To describe it better, I want to use some external functionality that is available through a proprietary library. Since the library IS NOT compatible with GPL Programs, ...
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Extending GPL project with Paid license features
I found some GPL v3 licensed open source projects that also have paid enterprise license versions with more useful features.
I only need 10% of the features available in the (expensive) enterprise ...
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License to acknowledge the initiative work
In case someone makes a product based on my open source project, I'd like to have them to acknowledge my project with: "Powered by <MyProject>[link_on_Github]"
Is there a license similar to MIT,...
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Including the MIT copyright notice when the software is part of a larger proprietary software
From reading the license here I understand how I can use the software but the only condition it imposes has confused me.
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in ...
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Using Parts of MIT Licensed Software
I use an MIT licensed package to receive messages in a certain protocol. If I want to use a part of this package to build a new one (also MIT) which sends messages in that protocol (so it's 80% diff. ...
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What am I supposed to do with the license, in case of a third party project modification?
I'm making some modifications to this project licensed under MIT License.
The thing is: I don't know what to do to their license file. Do I just override with my stuff?!
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Can I include license text in my project's README and not add a license file?
When I add a license to a software project I place the text of the license in a file named LICENSE.md in the root of the repository.
Now I want to include the license text in the README.md instead ...
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What is the way to handle a project that is a mix of software and non-software items?
Our project is partly software, and partly 3d models and images. To me, the language of the MIT license, which specifically refers to software, doesn't really seem applicable to the parts that aren't ...
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How do I cite MIT licensed software in a research publication?
I have found code provided on GitHub under an MIT license. I have modified the code to be useful for my application. In order to give proper credit to the original author/developer, how can I provide ...
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Can I take MIT licensed code and distribute it under BSD?
There is django-auth-kerberos (MIT) which I want to cherry-pick as initial implementation and include+modify as a plugin to python-social-auth/social-core (BSD). Does the MIT license permit this? Are ...
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Does redistributing an unmodified copy of rt.jar from OpenJDK7 using an MIT license violate the GPLv2 with Classpath Exception?
I am considering redistributing a copy of the rt.jar file available within the OpenJDK Zulu distribution within my GitHub project repository which is licensed on a project basis using the MIT license. ...
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Licensing current and future change
I have this repo on my GitHub https://github.com/bortek/EZ-WifiBroadcast which is based on Raspbian OS image plus has additional code developed initially by a person which we call here Creator. The ...
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Can I relicense my own GPL code into Apache/MIT? [duplicate]
Suppose that I distribute my own code with a GPL license, even though the code use just external MIT or Apache code. In particular, no preexisting GPL code is in it.
Can I later relicense it under ...
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Can I use API exposed in an open source project (MIT License) in a commercial software?
I wanted to use an api that is exposed in an open source project under MIT License.There's no restrictions mentioned for the use of api anywhere in the License neither it says that we can use the api ...
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Copyright of MIT licenced libraries usage within GPL licensed code
My software is completely written in python and has the following architecture of down cascaded dependencies. I plan to share my whole source code (FileA, FileB, FileC) next time in GitHub:
FileA: ...
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Why it is sufficient to include only copyright without permission notice when using React library in your project?
As far as I understand if you want to use React.js library you should comply with MIT license by adding its copyright and permission notice before the library is included to the source code (to the ...
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Fork maintain and distribute a MIT project
Given a project which is under MIT, has been archived, can it be forked, restarted the dev and be redistributed/renamed?
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Proper way of “migrating” MIT-licensed code to Apache 2.0 License
I am building a software which I plan to release with Apache 2.0 License and some components are code based from a repository released with MIT License.
MIT License states: "The above copyright ...
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Publishing an open source project linked to commercial closed API
We are thinking about to publish a module of a commercial closed software as open source under e.g. MIT or BSD.
The published open source module would have still some dependencies to the commercial ...
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What is the appropriate way to include third-party libraries copyright notice and permission notice in my project source code?
I am writing a web app based on react framework and I am using npm package manager. Together with transitive dependencies I have about 800 MIT licensed dependencies. To comply with MIT, do I need to ...
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Can I make the code in a project currently licensed under the MIT license private without involving a contributor? [duplicate]
I licensed an iOS project under MIT license and a friend made one contribution, adding a few lines to the README.md. The project has been forked twice.
I would like to make the second version closed ...
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Which of Qt license files must we include with our open source (MIT) software?
We are using the LGPL version of Qt 4.8 for some components of our MIT-licensed desktop software (https://appleseedhq.net/).
In my Qt 4.8.7 distribution, I see at least the following license files:
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Is it correct in general to have both MIT and Apache license for the same project
I am using the javascript library Datejs in my project, the library states in their website that the code is released under the MIT Licence but the code published on their GitHub account is published ...
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How should I license my project if it can install GPL-based plugins?
I'm developing a software which has two parts, kernel and plugins, their code are completely separated. Here's the question:
Some of the plugins should be GPL based, as they invoked GPL code.
The ...
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If I compile Visual Studio Code from source, is the compiled version licensed from MIT or Microsoft's license?
I intend to compile Visual Studio Code on my own to be able to redistribute it.
But I still don't know whether I could do that.
So may I know if the compiled version uses the MIT License or Microsoft'...
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Is “license”: “MIT” in config enough to be a valid license in a software project?
For my case, I have open source projects in Node JS that use the MIT license for which I have only added "MIT" to the license field in the package.json config file. There are no contents of the ...
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Used code from two differnetly licensed projects - which license should I use for mine?
In my project, I have copied and used code from two other projects, one of which is licensed under GPLv3 and the other one has an MIT license.
Which license should I use for my project?
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How to use software published under MIT without copyright notice?
MIT License says:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
However, a few repositories do not have any ...
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Opensource license ownership and collaboration
If a person releases their source under some Open source license. And later if another person contributes to the project through a pull request (in Github). Then, does the contributor gets a say if ...
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What means “distribution” for Open Source licenses (MIT/GPL)?
What means "distribution" for Open Source licenses MIT and GPL?
Is the client side code running on user's browser "distribution" for these licenses?
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If I modify and include a MIT lcensed software in my website, have i to include the license?
If i modify and include a MIT lcensed software in my website (script for functions, no download for users), have i to include the license? Have i to indicate the changes?
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What are my license (or giving-credit) obligations regarding open source software?
We're using a number of open source libraries in our software. They all fall under one of the following 3 licenses:
MIT License
Apache License 2.0
BSD 3-Clause License
These are all very liberal ...
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Take portion of MIT license library, and redistribute in new library
I am currently writing a java library that I intend to release under MIT license.
Right now I have drawn on another MIT license library.
I would like to only use a couple source files/classes from ...
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Can I modify an open source license to require that I be notified?
I often use the MIT license for my projects.
But recently I've had the thought that I really would like to be notified if someone forked my software, whether it's for personal use, released or not I ...
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Can I move an in-line license to a file?
I am currently using a library that is licensed under MIT.
Each file of the library has a in-line comment containing the standard MIT license text in full length, which is kind of repetitive in my ...
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Change text of original author
I am thinking about using this library: https://github.com/rxi/classic/blob/master/classic.lua
and I have a question regarding the first few lines:
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-- classic
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-- Copyright (c) 2014, rxi
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-- ...
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Single-executable CLI program, does this comply with the MIT license?
I'm making a single-executable CLI program that I plan on distributing with some man pages.
But I can't seem to understand whether or not I can comply with the MIT license by adding an argument (-a ...
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Why doesn't the MIT license have “patent use” permission?
From https://choosealicense.com/licenses/ and https://choosealicense.com/appendix/ I notice that the MIT license doesn't have "patent use" permisson like other popular open source licenses.
What ...
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How do you copyright/license software based on MIT-licensed open source code?
I am a former developer that codes in my spare time for fun and to maintain some level knowledge in the subject. So I found an interesting proof of concept online. I saw the potential to modify it and ...
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Re-implementing MIT licensed software in another language
I have re-implemented a library in Golang which was originally in Python.
The original Python library carries an MIT license, which gives me "without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,...
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With source code lost, can the binary be released as MIT?
I preserve old software by asking copyright owners (often one author) to release the source code under an Open Source License, GPL or MIT. In many cases the source is gone, but the binaries still ...
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Building programs using qmake
Can I use qmake to build Non Qt programs with a closed source or MIT licence?
The c++ code that I'm building does not include any Qt headers or link to any Qt libraries.
The only mention of Qt in ...
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If I translate/port a repository from one programming language to another, do I need to use the license file (Github) from that original project?
If I translate/port a repository from one programming language to another, do I need to use the license file (Github) from that original project? Or can I use my own license file.
I intend to use the ...
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Simple permissive license that requires author statement in addition to copyright statement
I created an open source software component which I put under the MIT license. I chose it because I don't like legalese, and this license is about the shortest there is apart from public domain (which ...
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Where to show the MIT license for a webpage theme?
I have found 1-2 interesting Jekyll webpage themes that have the MIT license (on http://jekyllthemes.org/).
I want to use an adjusted version of these themes for my webpage and I understand that I ...
