> Finally, as a user, I prefer Apache over MIT because Apache makes patent rights explicit. The thing is that you cannot really compare MIT and Apache-2.0 dire

> Finally, as a user, I prefer Apache over MIT because Apache makes patent rights explicit. The thing is that you cannot really compare MIT and Apache-2.0 directly because they differ in several ways. It's not just MIT+patent clause. Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. This is not legal advice. Consult an attorney with experience in copyright law wrt software for legal advice. Some ways they differ: 1. The MIT license does not mention patents. Apache-2.0 is explicit about patents and has active defenses (patent litigation against the one granting the license leads to immediate termination of the granted patent rights). 2. You must ship the entire license in both cases, but the mode differs. The MIT license makes you include the copyright notice and permission notice. The Apache-2.0 license makes you ship the Apache-2.0 license text in any case; this does not include attribution in and of itself, which it only mandates for redistribution in source form. 3. If you modify Apache-2.0 software, you must make modified files carry "prominent notices" thating that you changed the files (in practice, this raises interesting questions regarding workflows centered around pull requests because PRs necessarily violate the license until merged). 4. MIT license only requires you to carry around the copyright notice and the license (unless the copyright notice refers to an external file, which you must then keep under the same filename because keeping the copyright notice intact is required; fiat-crypto is one of these incredibly creative projects that does this). Apache-2.0 requires you to always also ship a file if it is a "'NOTICE' text file", assuming this means a text file called "NOTICE", you have to ship an extra file, to which you may add your own copyright notices therein. 5. No implied trademark rights on Apache-2.0. The MIT license does not make any effort to talk about trademarks (thus implied trademark licenses, like with implied patent licenses, might be possible); Apache-2.0 does not grant any trademark rights except for the NOTICE file. If you want something closer to MIT+patent clause, try the Blue Oak Model License.