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The MIT license just gives you permission to use the work as published. Normally that work would be in source form, but there is nothing in the MIT license requ

The MIT license just gives you permission to use the work as published. Normally that work would be in source form, but there is nothing in the MIT license requiring that. In this case, it seems that the authors chose to release the binaries under the MIT license.

Semaphor 3y ago
Just for completeness: > I open-source pretty much all my work, but TextAnalysisTool.NET is an exception due to a variety of historical reasons. Sorry about that! -- https://github.com/TextAnalysisTool/Releases/issues/22 https://github.com/TextAnalysisTool/Releases/issues/22
- sebazzz 3y ago
  I wonder what the historical reasons are.
  - rdhatt 3y ago
    It was originally an internal tool, so I would guess either A) he doesn't have permission from all the contributors or B) he used reused code from elsewhere within Microsoft that wasn't open source compatible.