Questions tagged [mit]
Use this tag for questions pertaining to the MIT/Expat license or the MIT/X11 license.
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Relicensing a MIT licensed project to prevent damaging code changes
I have found a piece of software which I have grown so fond of that I wish to improve it.
However, since the software is an MIT licensed project I could fear that the change I would like might not be ...
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Question about whether license allows inclusion in open source project
We are currently developing an open source project using the MIT license, and we'd like to incorporate Microsoft's Visual Studio 2017 icons, which can be found here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/...
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Is MIT license suitable for an open source specification?
I know the MIT license is suitable for code and its associated documentation.
However, is it suitable for an open source specification (without any code)? Or should I use a different license (and ...
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Can I license code that links to GPL code under a more permissive license?
I'm working on a project that I want to release under the MIT license. However, it includes a GPL'ed library. I understand this means I must release my work under GPL. Am I able to release the whole ...
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org-rs: can I use MIT/Apache2/LGPL license?
I am working on a project https://github.com/org-rs/org-rs written in Rust programming language.
The goal of the project is to provide a parser for the Org markup language.
Because of the ...
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MIT License for a jointly developed website
My friend and I developed an open-source non-commercial website which we would like to publish with MIT license.
Mit License starts with words
Copyright (c) [year] [fullname]
Is it OK to write both ...
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When is a commercial company allowed to acquire an Open Source project?
For the last few months I spent significant time contributing to an open source project which is licensed with MIT license. I was aware that anyone is allowed to copy, use and change the project's ...
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License obligations when creating a statically linked executable
I've recently completed my first "real" game and although it's not much I'd like other people to be able to play it without having to compile from source and satisfy dependencies on their own. I ...
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Using a GPL 3.0 parser generator for an MIT licensed program
If I used a GPL 3.0 licensed program like jacc to generate a parser generator which I incorporate into an MIT licensed program, do I have to release my program as GPL?
Note that the grammar ...
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License that requires attribution to end users?
I'm looking for an open source license that requires attribution to end users.
Thus far, I've looked at the MIT license and Apache 2.0. But I am not convinced that they require attribution to end ...
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Can i use MIT, ISC, Apache-2.0 in a project licensed as MIT or Apache 2.0?
I want to create a project in Angular licensed as MIT or Apache 2.0 and i need to include projects with different licences (MIT, ISC, Apache-2.0 and perhaps BSD-3).
The project includes an area for ...
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If MIT licensed code links to GPL licensed code what should be the license of the resulting binary program?
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I have written a program that uses a GPLv2 library. The source code to my program is publicly available under an MIT license. For the sake of this example let's say my program links to the ...
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Is there a legal definintion of a file?
The MIT, GPL, and Apache Licenses all make references to "files".
Here are example of such references:
(all emphasis added)
MIT:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person ...
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Can I be accused of using MIT library in my codebase that internally depends on library not compatible with MIT?
In general, when I make my code dependent on library, do I have to check its dependencies licenses or library license is the only one to be checked on my side?
Can I be assused of using MIT library ...
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Releasing a JS library made in TypeScript as MIT including compiled files
TypeScript is a programming language released as Apache 2.0.
Can I create my own JS library, using TypeScript, and publish it under MIT, including the compiled results (i.e. including the auto-...
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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?
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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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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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How should I use software under the MIT Licence without copyright holder?
I am working on a project and started from some GitHub repository, licensed under the MIT license.
The preamble is the following:
MIT License
Copyright (c) 2018
Permission is hereby ...
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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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MIT-licensed project with CC-BY-SA dependency
I have a project (code) that I am wanting to license as MIT. It has a few dependencies, mostly assets (icons and images). Some dependencies are MIT and I include their licenses in the source, but a ...
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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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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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