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MIT: https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/LICENSE https://github.com/microsoft/WSL/blob/master/LICENSE

• jleyank 1y ago
  IANAL, but how is this license different from, say, the older BSD license - thought that was "have fun, do what you want, post a notice"? It doesn't say anything regarding ownership of changes, nor how to add copyright for such changes... Does this mean that MS is looking to own changes, or will there be a string of extra copyright notices for each (significant?) change?
  • jcranmer 1y ago
    The MIT license scrunches the first two clauses of the 3-clause BSD license into a single clause, and omits the third clause (the nonendorsement clause, which is already generally implied). As a practical matter, most of the basic "simple" open source licenses are functionally identical.
    • jleyank 1y ago
      But who owns the copyright to changes, and how is it recorded? I just am suspicious as to what or how large companies who sell/rent software deal with open-source, free stuff...
      • wging 1y ago
        You can answer those questions for yourself, it's all in the repo.
      • jcranmer 1y ago
        That's not covered by the license; that's covered by the CLA (Contributor License Agreement), and in the absence of one (I don't know if there is one or not for this repository), the author retains copyright to their code as usual.