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Re: MIT License?



Jean-Christophe Dubacq <Jean-Christophe.Dubacq@ens-lyon.fr> wrote:
>Maybe I am a bit stupid, but it only guarantees that the copyright
>notice stays. I might have a problem with the word 'sublicense'. Does
>this word mean that:
>
>- you can use the same license
>- you can use any license
>- you can use any license which is no more restrictive than the original
>one (is 'You have to put this copyright notice a restriction or not ?)
>- you can use any license which is no less restrictive than the orginial
>one.

As far as I know, you can use any licence. This is not a copyleft: the
software doesn't have to stay free, and you can make it into proprietary
software if you like. But that doesn't stop it being DFSG-free.

-- 
Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]



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