MIT license

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The MIT license , and X license or X11 license called, is one from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology derived permissive open-source license . It allows the reuse of the software under it, both for software whose source text is freely viewable ( open source ) and for software whose source text is not freely viewable ( closed source ).

The license was released in 1988. Many developer groups place their own software under the MIT license. These include the Haiku operating system , the cryptocurrency Bitcoin , the Ruby on Rails web framework , the jQuery JavaScript framework and the X Window System ( X11 ). Other frameworks under this license are Node.js or .NET Core .

It should be noted that not all MIT software is covered by this license. For example, the MIT Game Lab uses a more restrictive license.

License text

Original text

Analogous translation (not official)

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge , publish, distribute, sublicense, and / or sell copies of the software, and to permit persons to whom the software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holder>

Anyone who receives a copy of this software and the associated documentation files (the "Software") is hereby granted permission free of charge to trade in the software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, Publish, distribute, sublicense and / or sell copies of the software, and permit persons to whom the software is made available to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice must be included in all copies or substantial portions of the software.

THE SOFTWARE IS MADE AS IS AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTY, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGE, OR OTHER OBLIGATION, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR LIABILITY ACTION, IMPROPER ACTING OR OTHERWISE AFFECTED BY, FROM, OR CONNECTED WITH, THE SOFTWARE REVEAL.

use

Since the MIT license itself is not copyrighted , anyone is free to modify the MIT license for their own use. For example, the Free Software Foundation uses an almost identical license for its library ncurses . Other groups, in turn, place their software under a second license in addition to the MIT license. For example, with older versions of the cURL library, you can choose between the MIT license and the Mozilla Public License . In the license list of the Free Software Foundation, the MIT license is called the “X11 license” in order to avoid confusion with other MIT software licenses.

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GitHub: LICENSE.TXT file for jquery
  2. ↑ GitHub: LICENSE file for node.js
  3. ↑ GitHub: LICENSE.TXT file for .NET Core
  4. ^ License text of the MIT Game Lab
  5. ↑ Various Licenses and Comments about Them