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MIT License

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Background

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has their own version of an “as-is” software license.  This license grants permission to the user free of charge to use and reuse their material/software in any way they see fit.

Key Points

Discussion Questions

  1. Why would a person choose the MIT license over BSD or GPL?
  2. How does the MIT License differentiate itself from BSD and GPL?

Additional Resources

Free Software Foundation (2014) https://edtechbooks.org/-eABG

Berkeley Software Distribution (2014) https://edtechbooks.org/-HVhd

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