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MIT Licence

MIT

Steward: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (originating institution)Jurisdiction: InternationalPublished: 1988Original licence text

Overview Comparison Compatibility

Permissive open-source code licence. Free use, modification, redistribution; minimal attribution and copyright-notice requirements.

The MIT Licence is one of the simplest and most-used open-source code licences. It permits use, modification, redistribution, and sublicensing — including in proprietary contexts — provided that the original copyright notice and the licence text are preserved with the source code.

The MIT Licence is included in the CLIPol catalogue for cross-domain comparison work — situations where an open-data project includes both data (under a CC or ODbL licence) and code (under an MIT or similar licence) and licence-stack questions arise.