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Altering author names in MIT license
Yes, this is covered by the MIT license and you should contact the author of the derivative work to correct the copyright notice.
More precisely, with MIT license, you allow everyone:
to use, ...
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Can you change code distributed under the MIT license, and re-distribute it under the GPL license?
Nothing to add to the explanations in the answers already given, but here are instructions for how to shape your source file headers (source):
2.2 Adding GPL’d modifications to permissive-licensed ...
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May I include parts of MIT-licensed code inside my closed-source project?
There is not copyleft provision in the MIT license. The MIT license gives you legal permission to use the code without ever distributing any of your source code. Since your project is closed source, ...
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How was the Mono Project able to relicense their LGPLed libraries under MIT?
If you take a look at Mono on GitHub, specifically the CONTRIBUTING.md file prior to its update after Microsoft bought Xamarin (and thus Mono), it states:
The runtime (mono/...) is a special case. ...
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Can I use libraries published under MPL 2.0 and MIT in a project that uses APL 2.0?
None of the MPL, MIT or Apache licenses are viral. This means that none of the licenses tries to extend its reach beyond the files that it is explicitly applied to.
Additionally, all three of the ...
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How to include licenses for third-party Maven dependencies?
Using the Maven License Plugin, you can generate a text file with all the licenses (license:add-third-party). This file can then be included as a resource into your project or your bundled zip.
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What to do when using MIT-licensed code in a GPL-licensed project?
AFAIK, the typical GPL variants apply only to your work "as a whole", and the MIT license is "compatible" with GPL. That means, if parts of your program are under MIT license, that is fine, as long as ...
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Can I include code licensed under MPL within a project under MIT license?
Yes, you can combine code that is licensed under MPL 2.0 into a project that contains source code from one or more other licenses, including the MIT License. However, the individual source files ...
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Professional use of former MIT licensed sofware
If you received a copy of the software under the MIT license, you still have a license to do everything that the MIT license allows you to do - "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, ...
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Best freeware license for my closed-source application
I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice. Consult your copyright attorney if you want clarification on any of these issues.
uses a statically linked class licensed under "GNU GPL v2 or any ...
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MIT vs. BSD vs. Dual License
Your five points are all true.
The other answer seems to be assuming you are including the older, rarely used 4 clause BSD license.
If you interpret "BSD licenses" as referring to the more commonly ...
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Is this the correct way to include this MIT licensed software in my software?
Yes, what you have done is sufficient.
The README.md states that the project is available under the MIT or Apache License 2.0. That means that you get to choose which license you use. In this case, ...
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What is the meaning of "All rights reserved" next to a permissive license?
Wikipedia says this:
"All rights reserved" is a phrase that originated in copyright law as a formal requirement for copyright notice. It indicates that the copyright holder reserves, or holds for ...
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If you manage a BSD-licensed open source project, how do you guard against someone illegally contributing GPL-licensed code?
One does not simply "guard against" illegal contributions.
You never accept blindly a contribution, and should have a process to vet contributions (including yours) for several kinds of ...
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With source code lost, can the binary be released as MIT without it?
In every jurisdiction I know, the author or copyright holder of a software can pick whatever license they like, source code available or not. And nowhere in the MIT license does the term "source code" ...
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Should we include 3rd party open source licenses if only copying syntax?
Disclaimer: this is not legal advice. It's only a personal opinion from an IT professional. For legal advice you shall consult a lawyer or qualified legal expert.
Legal aspects wary very much from ...
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Could there by any issues with transition from MIT to Apache License?
The owner, or copyright holder of the project is the one who gets to decide what license to use on each distribution of that project. The owner is completely free to use different licenses on ...
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What are the requirements for attribution in the MIT License?
Note: before you mercilessly downvote - please understand the four-corners legal principle, international interpretation, and the Usage of Trade principle, and of course - be objective.
I've found ...
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MIT License: Selling and distributing
MIT is a permissive license, apart from a few details about copyright and warranty representations. It has three parts:
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
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Best freeware license for my closed-source application
You are out of luck.
The GPL license is written in such a way that if even the tiniest part of your code was provided to you under the GPL license, then you are required to use the GPL license as ...
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What are the options for licensing a code project with "license soup" in the sources?
Given the license soup described above, can I even release my code under a single license, or should/must each part of it (mine and everybody else's) have a separate license?
Both. GPLv3 requires ...
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Do I have to release my code under MIT license
No. MIT is not a viral license, like the GPL. Using GPL'd code requires you to release your code under GPL.
Yes. MIT doesn't have any commercial restrictions.
N/A.
You should read the license; it'...
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Understanding application licenses when using third party libraries in an android project
It's kind-of ironic that your question is about how to handle the license of a library that generates About pages for apps, because the most common practice for what to do with such licenses is to ...
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How do I properly credit authors of software released under the MIT license?
I am not a layer, but here is what I proposed and was validated in my jurisdiction:
Include ALL license files from any included MIT code, be it forked, copied as-is, etc.
If the license files are ...
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What do I choose if I use the source code from a GPL2 project, and another source code from MIT?
TLDR; assuming you are going to release it, you release your code under GPL.
When mixing licenses the first question is generally, are they compatible - in this case (IIRC), yes they are. So using ...
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How to license application generated from boilerplate code?
IANAL, but the case you describe is IMHO similar to the distinction between licenses for individual modules of a software and the software "as a whole", as you often find them in open source software. ...
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Open Source Licenses like GPL in Multiple Licenses models
If the contributors of changes agree to a Contributor License Agreement (CLA), then the project owner holds all of the copyright. In essence, contributors can be asked to give up their rights to own ...
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How (or whether) to credit another software project that provided inspiration for mine?
The copyright statements (the "Copyright ") should only mention the people that actually provided code to the file/project.
People that didn't contribute any actual code but only provided inspiration ...
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