MIT License
Do whatever you want. Just keep the copyright notice.
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.
Tools using MIT License (562)
Open Science Desktop: local-first, model-agnostic AI research workbench for macOS, Windows & Linux. Open-source Claude Science desktop alternative built on Tauri + MCP + agent skills.
Sync and locally store all of your X/Twitter bookmarks. Free and open source CLI for Mac.
A design system for AI applications. Material, physical, tactile, technical.
微信聊天记录一键转发到 AI Agent 与 Obsidian 的原生 macOS 工具
AI coding agent optimized for small LLMs. 87% benchmark with 4B-active model.
Entire MacOS running in your terminal.
ClawSweeper scans all issues and PRs and suggest what we can close, and why. It runs every PR / Issue once a week.
Automatic font fallback based on font metrics
Evidence-first genealogy skill for AI agents (Codex, Claude Code): church books, civil, military, deportation and repression records across the former USSR. Replies in your language.
Git at scale platform
Get a 1Password team account for free to support your open source initiatives!
Nix User Repository: User contributed nix packages [maintainer=@Pandapip1]
PEP-484 stubs for Django
High-performance AI coding agent CLI written in Rust with zero unsafe code
Design clear, theme-specific GitHub README homepages with SVG titles, real proof, and maintainable Markdown
px0 is an IDE built for reviewing AI-generated code, optimized for speed. It turns your browser into a zero-latency console with native Git and GitHub integrations, instant search across massive codebases, and seamless handoff to local AI coding harnesses.
The diary of Tom Riddle for the reMarkable Paper Pro: write with your pen, the page drinks your ink and answers in a flowing hand
A Flutter toolkit for building document editors and readers
💝 Composable Promises & Promises as components
Agent skill: describe your stack in a sentence, get an architecture diagram with official logos
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