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Please don't say things like, "MIT does not protect you from any patent-related legal action." It isn't that the MIT License is known to provide no protection;
by carussell 11y ago
Please don't say things like, "MIT does not protect you from any patent-related legal action."
It isn't that the MIT License is known to provide no protection; rather, it's unknown whether the MIT License provides protection. The MIT License contains strong wording to suggest it may very well provide protection against patents, but it's untested and not quite as strong as the patent grant in, say, Apache 2.0. It's a matter of knowns and unknowns.
Consequently, this is why the MIT License and the BSD License should not be lumped together.