I'd suggest reading this line-by-line explanation of the MIT license: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-by-Line.html https://writing.ke

I'd suggest reading this line-by-line explanation of the MIT license: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-by-Line.html https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-b... Once you understand why everything that's in a license is there, it's hard to imagine making it much shorter. The Apache license does a good job of separating out the full text and a smaller boilerplate to put on each file, so that may be a good option.