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what is an MIT license?

  • MIT tldrl
  • MIT is just the name of license
  • it's popular one because it allows people to use/modify/redistribute without needed to contribute changes back to the source (like GPL)
  • if i put MIT on something i build, then i'm saying "people, feel free to use this! no need to come back to me with your changes."
  • by default things things are copyrighted, if you don't specify a license at all, so it means - hey you can't use this
  • MIT/BSD/GPL/etc are "copyleft" type licenses
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