Key facts
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- Spdx identifier
- MIT, (see list for more)
- Debian fsg compatible
- Yes
- Fsf approved
- Yes
- Osi approved
- Yes
- Gpl compatible
- Yes
- Copyleft
- No
- Linking from code with a different licen
- Yes
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Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- permissive free software license
- Said to be same as
- X11 license
- Has use
- run-time system
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- License :: OSI Approved :: MIT License
- approved by
- الجميع
- inception
- 1984-01-00
- publication date
- 1988-01-01
- work available at URL
- opensource.org/licenses/MIT
- topic has template
- Template:MIT
- has edition or translation
- X11 license
- described at URL
- www.osadl.org/fileadmin/checklists/unreflicenses/MIT.txt
- operating system
- macOS
- short name
- MIT
- Commons category
- MIT licenses
- name
- MIT License
- Stack Exchange tag
- opensource.stackexchange.com/tags/mit
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Encyclopedic overview
The MIT License is a permissive software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in the late 1980s. As a permissive license, it puts few restrictions on reuse and has high license compatibility.
Unlike copyleft software licenses, the MIT License allows reuse within proprietary software, provided that all copies of the software or its substantial portions include a copy of the terms of the MIT License and also a copyright notice. In 2015 and from at least 2020 through 2025, the MIT License was the most popular software license on GitHub.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “MIT License” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.