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The MIT License
Raven Zachary, April 19, 2007 @ 1:43 pm ETWhat do Ruby on Rails, X Windows, PuTTY, and Liferay have in common? They all use the refreshingly-short open source MIT License:
The MIT License
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Sometimes, less is more.
Comments (4) Categories: Licensing,Software
After the earful I received for conducting a Q&A that was anti-GPLv3, I hear you loud and clear on this one.
[...] The 451 Group’s Raven Zachary continues to impress me. Not only can he fire off a slew of great quotes for SearchEnterpriseLinux.com articles — while waiting for his car to get worked on at the mechanic’s (true story) — he also thinks the same way I do when it comes to open source licenses: The MIT License [...]
[...] 451 CAOS Theory ยป The MIT License Mono too, i believe, Raven (tags: MIT license opensource) [...]
mr grady, only the class libraries, none of the actual mono tool suite GPL and the runtimes LGPL. its in mono-project.com ‘s faq.