MIT License

The MIT license, even X License or the X11 license called, is a native of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology license for the use of different types of computer software. It allows the reuse of under their software for both software whose source code is free of cost, as well as for software whose source code is not free of cost.

The license was issued in 1988. Many development groups provide their own software under the MIT license. These include among others the operating system Haiku, the web framework Ruby on Rails, the JavaScript framework jQuery, and the well-known X Window System ( X11).

It should be noted that not every MIT software is released under this License. The MIT Game Lab used, for example, a more restrictive license.

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Restriction 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, 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 splat 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 FOR ANY CLAIM liable, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, Whether, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

This is free of charge, to any person (the " Software") will receive a copy of this software and associated documentation files given permission to use it without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and / or sell, and persons to whom the Software, furnished to do so, under 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 WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE OR PROVIDED AND NONINFRINGEMENT, BUT NOT LIMITED TO. 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 IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR OTHERWISE USE THE SOFTWARE.

Use

Since the MIT license itself is not provided with a copyright, everyone is free to modify the MIT license for your own use. For example, using the Free Software Foundation an almost word- same license for their library ncurses. Other groups provide their software in addition to the MIT license under a second license. For example, you can choose in older versions of the library cURL between the MIT License and the Mozilla Public License. The license list the Free Software Foundation, the MIT license called " X11 license" to avoid confusion with other software licenses from MIT.