Typically the licenses listed for the project are that of the project itself, and not of dependencies.
Copy of the license follows.
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The MIT License
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.
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Referring to license via URL
Is it sufficient to refer to the license via URL? I want to modify and use some code that only refers to the license via:
/* Licensed under the MIT license: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php */
Is it OK to integrate code within a larger code-base (e.g. using some MIT-licensed JavaScript within a larger javascript library) with a wrapper / comment inserted in the appropriate place:
/* Function foobar derived from MIT-licensed code: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php */
Note: I've no idea of the legal significance of changing "Licensed under the MIT license" to "Derived from MIT licensed code" - hence the question.
Another question
If we are making a closed source application, selling this application for profit, include this license in the open source license file, are we breaking any laws?
Thank you for your time.
A Question
I downloaded a software under this License.
Upon the original software I have made several changes.
I would like to release our it with those changes.
What kind of licensing can it go with ?(with the Same license ?)
Is it possible to keep the changes under my name ?
How can i use this?
If i want distribute open source system CMS on my site http://correct.com.ua/ can i use this license?
Yes, of course you can use
Yes, of course you can use this license. Just include the text of the license in a file called "LICENSE", and make reference to it in a file called "README".
Additional Clause Requested
As stated the law allows abuses of software. Require a clause that no malicious uses may be entered into with said program conditional of any use.
Martin M. Musatov
The problem with a clause
The problem with a clause like that is: who gets to define what is malicious use? What happens if that entity ceases to make those decisions?