Questions tagged [mit]
Use this tag for questions pertaining to the MIT/Expat license or the MIT/X11 license.
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Using of library under MIT license with dependency on library under MPL-2.0
We want to use MSGReader library in our project. MSGReader is open-source project under MIT license. MSGReader depends on OpenMcdf library under Mozilla Public License 2.0.
Our project is proprietary ...
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Is Microsoft in compliance with MIT license for .Net Core?
I noticed that Microsoft claims to apply an MIT license to their .NET core code, which appears to contain a variance:
Copyright (c) .NET Foundation and Contributors
Whereas the opensource.org MIT ...
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How are software patches licensed?
Consider the software project dwm by Suckless. The project is clearly licensed under the MIT/X Consortium License, which includes the clause
The above copyright notice and this permission notice ...
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Should I translate license to app's language?
I'm developing a totally Persian portable (single .exe) app and want to apply MIT license on it. I included English license text in the help PDF which is embedded in app.
Should I translate license ...
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Is it ok to use React Navigation Stack/Drawer in your app when its dependency (@react-native-community/masked-view) does not have a license file?
I would like to use React Navigation in my React Native app which I would like to distribute in the Google Play Store. Both Stack and Drawer implementations of React Navigation have MIT licenses with ...
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Mattermost License
I don't understand this:
Mattermost Licensing
SOFTWARE LICENSING
You are licensed to use compiled versions of the Mattermost platform
produced by Mattermost, Inc. under an MIT LICENSE
See MIT-...
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Using MIT license for commercial purpose
I am interested in using this (https://github.com/awaragi/prometheus-mssql-exporter) software within our organisation. This repository has an MIT license.
I would like to clone this repository to my ...
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How to tell which parts of code are under MIT license?
I am building a javascript application that will be sold commercially with a non-free EULA. I used small sections of code from an MIT licensed project, so I understand I need to include the MIT ...
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Distributing LGPL library (OpenAL) as part of the MIT licensed game engine
Background:
I'm writing a game engine (a set of libraries actually) that simplifies game development with C# language (OK it is yet another game engine :).
My plan is to make it as free as possible. ...
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Source-only distribution of MIT-licensed project which depends on GPL library
I'm trying to understand exactly when a work becomes a "derivative work," and how it affects licensing of my project. In my situation, we have a scientific code that we have written which is ...
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Adding AGPL patches to a Software with APACHE2 or MIT License
I am interested in creating a fork of an abandoned software. The software which is no longer maintained is release under the terms of Apache 2 license.
Am I allowed to create my patches under a less ...
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Using one source code file from other project with different license type
I want to use one source code file from other open source project which is licensed under GPL3. That source code will be used to perform a single task in my project.
My entire project is licensed ...
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Using different licenses for different branches of the same repository
I have a Git repository with a medium-sized project on GitHub. Since there are some components depending on GPL libraries, the repository is currently also licensed under the GPL. However, the GPL-...
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Adding condition of giving a url to the original work to MIT license
I wand to share my code under MIT license on github, my question is: can I add a condition to the license that makes anyone who uses my code include copyright notice along with a url to my original ...
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license of MIT license text?
Under which license is the license text of the MIT license itself distributed?
If I make a new license based on the MIT license (a derivative work) and call it differently, am I allowed to do that?
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Can an NPM package have an MIT license on github if it depends on MIT packages with BSD-2, BSD-3 and Apache 2 licenses
I am trying to understand if an NPM package can be open-source on GitHub with an MIT license if it depends on NPM packages that are open-source on GitHub with a BSD-2, BSD-3, Apache 1 or Apache 2 ...
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What are the most suitable license for full open source framework? [closed]
I'm newbie in Open Source. In the near future I plan to publish to GitHub my web framework based on ECMA(JScript)/XSLT based on IIS hosting.
In plans to make the repository as public. So that I can ...
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Can i use MIT licensed library in my GPL3 project
I'm writing a library that I want to use in my GPL3 main project and I wonder if I can license the library using the MIT license.
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If my program use a project with MIT, but I modified some code of it, than do I need to mention that I use this project? [duplicate]
Does MIT require people must to mention the project that they use code or binary files obtained under this license? Even users close source or modified it?
And how about only the binary file or folder ...
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Including GPL plugin in repository of MIT code
I have an MIT-licensed library that supports user-provided backends. I was asked to implement a backend that would require using a GPL-licensed library. If I write such a backend, license it's files ...
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Why Opensource projects don't include notice and copyright information of dependent libraries having permissive license?
Many of the Opensource projects which use libraries which have a permissive license, doesn't include copyright and license information. For eg: Requests project (https://github.com/psf/requests) uses ...
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OS license and responsibility for code modification
Let's suppose that developer D created some OS code and published it under some OS license, e.g. MIT.
A company C downloaded copy of the code, modified it a bit and incorporated in its own work.
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How to credit packages used in a commercial flutter project?
I have used many libraries from the pub dev site in my flutter project and i notices many of them use the bsd, mit or apache 2.0 licence. I want to release this app in the future and have read that ...
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Will there be any restrictions if I use a MIT licensed module which is built on a GPL library in my commercial software?
I want to use a Python module (https://github.com/Belval/pdf2image) in my commercial software. This module is licensed under the MIT license whereas the library (Poppler) it is built on is licensed ...
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Licensing an electron app made with third-party packages
I have an app made with electron.js
I have used third party packages in my app.
All the packages have permissive licenses(MIT and BSD License) with them.
I am using UI assets(e.g. icons) with MIT ...
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Copyright when creating a Dockerfile & image based on a FOSS-licensed project
There is an MIT-licensed project, FooSoftware, which I have done some work to make work in a Docker container [1]. I would like to publish that work so that others can use FooSoftware in Docker ...
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If someone purchases a MIT license for code that is otherwise GPLv3, may they redistribute it? May they upload it on Github?
A fellow developer has done something that has made me curious, he has a popular javascript front-end package on GitHub which for years was licensed under MIT, then all of a sudden he released a v2 ...
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Should I include copyright notices with golang imports?
If i import code from a github repository in my go code by doing something like
import "github.com/.../..."
And this repository is licensed under the MIT license.
Do I need to include the copyright ...
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Using Apache/MIT licenced libraries in a closed source project
I've searched the web for hours trying to figure out if I'm using the licence properly, hopefully some one can enlighten me furthermore.
I own a start-up company that creates business-development ...
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How to integrate MIT-licensed files into a different project?
I would like to use some code from an MIT-licensed project I don't own (let's call it project A), in a project (B) with a different license. It is my understanding that I can do whatever I want with ...
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Do I need to include the licence for part of a program, which I have modified?
The X window manager dwm is designed to be customised by copying its default configuration config.def.h (which is supplied, along with the program's source code, under the MIT/X consortium licence) ...
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Is attribution required for server-side usage of MIT-licensed library?
I'm writing an ASP.NET application which is deployed to virtual machines running on Microsoft Azure and customers access using their browser. The virtual machines are under my control and customers ...
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Can different parts of a project be under different licenses?
I have a personal project (in C++) I've been working on that I'm thinking of putting on Git hub. I'm finding the question of picking an appropriate license quite daunting. Part of the project is an ...
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What license to use for GitHub repository containing trademark/copyright protected images?
I just can't seem to find an answer to this.
Normally I assign MIT License to all of my GitHub repositories, but so far they have only included code that I have personally written. I think that MIT ...
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Using MIT/Apache License 2.0 project in a SaaS product, Limitations from its dependencies
I have a specific question with respect to using a project which is licensed under MIT/Apache 2.0 in a SAAS product (proprietary). The open source project have multiple dependencies, if any of the ...
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Can I change the license of a forked project from LGPLv3 to MIT?
I have forked a project with LGPLv3 license and I did there a lot of changes.
Can I distribute a new version under the MIT license?
Or only the possibility is to write the code from "scratch"?
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Can I make a JS Library license 'MIT' if the JS library includes a paid commercial license
I purchased a single developer license for CanvasJS.
Here is the CanvasJS License:
https://canvasjs.com/eula/chart/
I used the library to create my library which is for a specific factory automation ...
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GPL-3.0 library in MIT project
I'm working on a project comprised of a small HTML page and a JavaScript script.
From the HTML page I include a library which is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0, and from my script ...
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Etiquette for incorporating someone else's MIT code in my GPL project?
I'm relatively new to open source, esp. in terms of collaboration, etiquette, etc. I am working on an open source library in the scientific/numerical programming domain, licensed under GPL.
There are ...
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MIT Licensed web app - can I enforce copyright header at the top of the main html in derivative works?
I'm considering releasing a software product under MIT license. It's a complete front-end web application, that users would self-host.
There are 3 parts to the application: index.html (a simple file ...
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Can someone fork my GPL licensed project and re-license it under MIT or BSD?
I want all the people who link to my software should also release their code under GPL. But what if someone forked it and attempted to relicense it under the MIT, BSD, Apache, or LGPL licenses? Can I ...
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LICENSE file required?
When creating a new Gatsby site with gatsby new gatsby-site, there exists the file LICENSE.
LICENSE
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2015 gatsbyjs
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, ...
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Should I add a licence to a Python3 script when putting it on GitHub?
I have written a script on python3. It is fairly simple it converts one biological sequence format of text file to another.
I am adding it to GitHub and was wondering if I should and need add a ...
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Including MIT license in art created by generative adversarial network
Say that I were to try to sell a piece of art generated by a generative adversarial network (GAN) created by someone else on GitHub which has an MIT License. The MIT License states that this GAN can ...
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Can I put project using premium theme on github as public?
I am not very familiar with github and license copyright. I purchase metronic admin dashboard theme and built one project using it. So can I put this project on github as public so that others will be ...
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Upstream re-licensing project from GPL-3.0 to MIT allowed?
Wappalyzer has recently been re-licensed to MIT; however, it was previously licensed under GPLv3.
I had opened an issue to clarify whether it was GPL-3.0-or-only, or GPL-3.0-or-later before this ...
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Can one resell any Bootstrap template because of the MIT licence?
The MIT licence contains
Permission is hereby granted,[..] to sell copies of the Software
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions ...
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Use of GPL software with proprietary network program
I am working on a distributed computing project. The client for this project uses Twisted (MIT licensed) to communicate with the server. The client will locally invoke a PARI/GP (GPL licensed) script ...
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Are Apache 2.0- and MIT-licensed components open source?
I am using a software with components marked as Apache 2.0 and MIT license. Are they considered as open source components, also are they redistributable?
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Rebranding existing library under MIT
I bit of background: When I was working in my previous company I came up with an idea to extract all some generic functionality from the different projects and create open source library (MIT) from ...
