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Your License: MIT
Shortest and simplest permissive license
Why This License?
- Extremely simple and easy to understand
- Shortest permissive license (just 171 words)
- Most popular open source license
- Maximum compatibility and adoption
- Used by millions of projects
Used by popular projects:
React, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, jQuery, .NET Core
What It Allows
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Private use
What It Requires
- Include copyright notice
- Include license text
What It Forbids
- Liability
- Warranty
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MIT License
Copyright (c) 2026 [Your Name]
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all
copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE
AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM,
OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE
SOFTWARE.Adding to GitHub
- Create a file named
LICENSEin your repository root - Paste the license text above
- Commit with message:
Add MIT license - GitHub will automatically detect and display the license