Questions tagged [mit]
Use this tag for questions pertaining to the MIT/Expat license or the MIT/X11 license.
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Does the MIT license propagate?
MIT license states
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
If I make a modified version of an MIT-covered ...
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Does physically removing GPL code relieve combined work from GPL publication requirements?
Here's the scenario. Alice crafted a compression library and published it under GPL. Bob crafted a font processing library which uses pieces of code from Alice's library and ... let's call it overly ...
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How should I assert copyright when I'm forking an MIT project?
I have an open source software project licensed under MIT.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Håvard Fossli
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any ....
I found ...
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Is it possible to include a shorter form of a license if the license would be longer than the content licensed?
For example, Gists on GitHub don't have a field to track the license that they are available under. You can simply choose to create a public Gist or a secret (private) Gist.
Many of the open source ...
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How should you put attribution into your project?
When you're copying open source from another project (not simply linking), how should you provide attribution in your source repo? I've copied some things into my code base that are probably not ...
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Merge, rebrand, relicense projects
There are two libraries under MIT, that do the same thing, each with some pros and cons. I'd like to merge them, effectively reworking the public API, but keeping the underlying logic (code). The ...
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Updating modified source code's copyright [duplicate]
A few years ago I started working on an open-source project, but things continued and now--years later--I currently maintain my own branch of the project. The project currently resides on GitHub.
The ...
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Ramifications of the proposed new SE licensing model
Like many other people I read this meta post. Since I don't really understand what is at stake I became confused and worried.
Does this mean that I can legally force any organization to let me see ...
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How much is "substantial portion" in MIT licence?
MIT license says:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
How much is that substantial portion?
For ...
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Which front-end agreement types go well with a MIT license?
I've decided on using a MIT license for a software project. Now I would like to go ahead and add agreements to the front-end of a website that uses the MIT licensed software. I looked at the template ...
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How to license a mashup? [duplicate]
I have designed a mashup that uses open source software. A substantial part of another open source project was used and the software of that project was made available under the MIT license. There is ...
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MIT license and "All rights reserved."?
I recently saw something like this:
Copyright (c) Some Corporation
All rights reserved.
MIT License
...
And then the MIT license follows. Now, from what I know the MIT license is one of the most ...
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Does the MIT open source licence cover making the key file, for a strongly typed assembly, public?
I have an open source C# project, Succint<T>, for which I wish to create a strongly typed assembly version. I plan on making the key file for this public, by adding it to the GitHub repository, ...
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What difference does a MIT and BSD license bring to my PHP framework project?
I am making a PHP application for a PHP framework for a client, currently deciding which framework to use and the license will have a bearing on this.
Will building it in Laravel/Codeiginter(MIT) or ...
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Is it possible to release a project under the GPL if it contains MIT-licensed libraries?
Specifically the Symfony PHP framework, which is MIT licensed. I've read that the two are compatible, but I want to make sure that a system I develop can be released complete under the GPL.
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Relicensing MIT Work [duplicate]
There's a web app released under the MIT license that I am forking. If I were to still keep it under the MIT from what I understand I would change the notice to something like:
Copyright (c) 2015 [...
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Are ambiguous JavaScript concatenations by the copyright owner legally significant
Here is an interesting case: A company provides a free (MPL-licensed) library (called JointJS), and furthermore a number of proprietary extensions (called rappid).
On their web server they ship a ...
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How to licence a project which includes MIT, BSD, Modified BSD, and New BSD libraries
I've been working on a project for a while, and I'm almost ready to release it, but I've been more concerned with getting it to build than legal considerations, and now I'm not at all sure where I ...
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What license options do I have for licensing ported source code?
If, I port Ruby on Rails (licensed under MIT) from Ruby to Java what license options do I have? Would I have to use MIT or a compatible license?
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Adding feature to an Apache v2 package
I'm working on one npm package based on another one but with another approach, this package is licenced under Apache v2 and I want to use MIT. After some use of my package I've noticed I need to use ...
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Combining code written under different licenses (Eiffel Forum License, MIT and Apache), what are my options?
So I'm new to all this licensing jazz, and I've just started work on a project I'd like to one day publish as open source.
I've found a couple of projects so far that have code to accomplish stuff ...
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If I'm using a GPL 3 library in my project, can I license my project under MIT license?
If I'm using a library that is licensed under GPL v3 in my project, can I license my project under the MIT license? I tried to read the GPL v3 text but I cannot understand it without your assistance.
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Can I make typographical changes to the MIT license?
If I make some typographical changes to the default MIT license, does it still count as the MIT license?
Example
Copyright (c)© [year], [organisation]
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to ...
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Am I in danger if a project component is relicensed?
I am currently managing a project, which includes a library that is licensed under the MIT license. My current project is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.
The maintainers of the library that I ...
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What should be written in MIT license (year, full name)?
I am creating an open source project and I want to use an MIT license for that. I have found this page: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/
What should I write under "full name"? Should the group ...
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Should I send attribution/copyright notes to a client over a server?
I know that when I use MIT projects, I have to include the license text of that author.
But when I use that stuff on the server-side should I render/send it to the client of the server?
Should I put ...
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If I license software under the MIT license, will I be able to collect patent royalties?
The GPLv2 and GPLv3 has anti-patent clauses.
The GPLv2 patent clause is "liberty or death":
For example, if a patent license would not permit royalty-free redistribution of the Program by all ...
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How should I re-license the scaffold code for my new application? (it is licensed under MIT)
If you notice the following scaffold starter kit source code is licensed under MIT throughout the code base. Even the configuration file contain a header of MIT licensed by the creator.
Assuming, I ...
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Can I sell my MIT-licensed software if it is modified by others?
Suppose I create some software from scratch. I sell the software, but I also keep it open source under the MIT License. Someone forks my repository and makes some great improvements to my software. ...
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Can I apply one license to specific users and another to others?
Suppose I am a developer. I am developing a piece of software. I decide I want to make this code open source. But... I only want developers (or people that will be using the code in other projects) to ...
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License for code snippets?
I share small snippets of code with friends, and would like to post them online for others to use.
I'm not sure of the best license?
I was thinking MIT, but it includes this clause:
The above ...
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What are the essential differences between the BSD and MIT licences?
There are many articles out there which cover the topic in length and breadth, but so far I haven't found a nice, concise answer to the question.
What are the most important differences between the ...
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