Licenses/MIT License

MIT License

Do whatever you want. Just keep the copyright notice.

permissiveSPDX: MIT

Commercial use

✓ Yes

Modify

✓ Yes

Distribute

✓ Yes

Must open source changes

✗ No

Must attribute

✓ Yes

Patent grant

✗ No

What this license means

The MIT License is the most popular open source license. It lets you use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell the software — with essentially no restrictions. The only requirement is that you include the original copyright notice and license text in any copy or substantial portion of the software.

When you encounter this license

Use MIT-licensed tools freely in any project — personal, commercial, proprietary. You can bundle it, modify it, sell products built with it. Just keep the license file somewhere in your project. This is the easiest license to work with.

Watch out for

No patent grant — if the software implements a patented algorithm, the MIT license doesn't protect you from patent claims. No warranty, no liability — standard for all OSS licenses.

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