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In what sense is the MIT license "unrestricted"?

• codeflo 10mo ago
  In the sense that when people want to use a piece of MIT-licensed software in another piece of software, they don't in practice find themselves restricted from doing so by the conditions of the license. "Permissive" might be a word I should rather have used.
  • swiftcoder 10mo ago
    The MIT license does place one specific license restriction on its users. Specifically: "subject to the following conditions: the above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software"
    • Zambyte 10mo ago
      This is what I was getting at. The MIT license has restrictions, so calling it "unrestricted" doesn't make sense.