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Sorry, I must be not getting something, but I'm reading MIT (Expat) license's text and I don't see this. On the contrary, it says that the copyright notice (=
by drdaeman 9y ago
Sorry, I must be not getting something, but I'm reading MIT (Expat) license's text and I don't see this.
On the contrary, it says that the copyright notice (= the license) shall be included in all copies (I assume, it's about derivative works as well).
From my understanding, one can throw in some non-MIT files or code pieces, but MIT code shall remain MIT-licensed until rewritten or removed.
Can you please point on where I'm wrong?
- mehrdada 9y agoYou are both right. You can relicense MIT, assuming you follow certain requirements, including replicating the copyright notice, but you are not required to give away the source code (even just to the original artifact) at all. The user has to find its own way to the source code. Replicating the copyright notice for attribution does not imply you are licensing it under MIT. You are following the original license requirements that permit your distribution.