Questions tagged [mit]
Use this tag for questions pertaining to the MIT/Expat license or the MIT/X11 license.
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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.
From now on, I want to include the license text in the README.md ...
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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 ...
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How do I comply with MIT or Apache licenses while making clear that these licenses only apply to the libraries?
I am making a closed source app for my employer. This app uses libraries under MIT and Apache licenses. How do I comply with these licenses in such a way that it is absolutely clear that these ...
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Does reading code and re-implementing the logic, and releasing under your name count as a licensing violation of MIT?
I'm not clear on what counts as a "copy" in the case of code.
If I read your code, that was MIT licensed, implement a similar logic on my own and use no code fragments from the original author, does ...
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Open Source Communication Module with PDF generation
I have a requirement where I need to send html template based emails and also attach some pdf which is dynamically generated from some more templates.
This seems to be the most common requirements of ...
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Are you allowed to use open source content as your own?
Can you simply just take open-souce content and use it as your own?
I have seen this a lot of times.
For example, this tutorial http://slashtutorial.com/rust/ was taken from https://github.com/...
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How do I combine MIT licence with GPL?
In my project there are a few library files that I would like to release under the MIT license. The rest of the project is released under GPL. How can I make it clear to someone who reads one of the ...
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Do I need to provide additional disclaimers when releasing code related to taxes?
I wrote a few scripts to help with doing my US Federal taxes this year. To do things like estimating sales tax and parsing information from 1099 forms. I wanted to post this code on GitHub in case ...
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Is it possible to transfer an MIT license?
Let's say that I have an MIT license on some open source software I created. I understand that with an MIT license, I need to state the license information in certain points of a code. I was wondering ...
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Is the MIT license suitable for documentation?
On choosealicense.com, there's a section that says:
Any open source software license or open license for media (see above) is applicable to software documentation
This implies that the MIT license ...
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What is Proper Attribution for Non-code Resources (Academic papers, etc) in OSS?
What is considered the proper way to attribute or acknowledge non-code non-software resources from which part of a piece of software could be considered to be derived (when intending to release the ...
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Proper place to include the license of a dependency
I'm developing a GPLv3 project, and i need to use both the feather's icon set, licensed with MIT license, and the PyQt5 library with GPL. I don't need to rewrite or extend any content of the these ...
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Is it legal to release an open source piece of malware [closed]
Is it perfectly legal to release an open source botnet registered under the MIT license? I understand that statements such as 'you download this program agreeing everything you do with it is on your ...
