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The "modified MIT" license is a dealbreaker.

• dark-star 5y ago
  not for most people I'd guesss. The use-case he's excluding is so narrow, and if you're doing something like that, there are probably better ways of handling this. The license is fine for all projects (commercial or private) that I'd be interested in using it for.
  • notRobot 5y ago
    > The license is fine for all projects (commercial or private) that I'd be interested in using it for. Unfortunately, it's not! It's very vaguely worded, and this means that a lot of things that you think might be okay technically aren't. See other comments in this thread.
  • rubyist5eva 5y ago
    I've spoken with enough lawyers at various companies to know that they will never touch this. Which might be the reason why it was licensed this way, but it also means I'm not going to touch it for my own project because the "modified terms" are so purposefully vague I can't guarantee that if I build something that becomes notable that they won't try to extract something from me with the obscure language in that second clause.