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Mega Limited released the source code to their client-side software around 28 January 2017 under an own license on github.com. [32] [33] MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 Microsoft: 1982 2018 Yes Yes Yes MIT: On 25 March 2014 Microsoft made the code to MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 available to the public under a Microsoft Research License for educational purposes.
Source code for 1997 and 1998 versions released under the MIT License on GitHub on 3 May 2022. [4] The source code for 3D Movie Maker, a computer program using the engine was also released under the same license. C-Dogs: 1999 2002–2016 Public-domain software/CC BY 3.0: Source code released to the public on 13 February 2002, under a public ...
The Open Source Initiative defines a permissive software license as a "non-copyleft license that guarantees the freedoms to use, modify and redistribute". [6] GitHub's choosealicense website describes the permissive MIT license as "[letting] people do anything they want with your code as long as they provide attribution back to you and don't hold you liable."
As of 2015, according to Black Duck Software [40] [better source needed] and a 2015 blog [11] from GitHub, the MIT license was the most popular open-source license, with the GNU GPLv2 coming second in their sample of repositories.
The Open Source Initiative (OSI) is one such organization keeping a list of open-source licenses. [1] The Free Software Foundation (FSF) maintains a list of what it considers free. [2] FSF's free software and OSI's open-source licenses together are called FOSS licenses.
License compatibility is a legal framework that allows for pieces of software with different software licenses to be distributed together. The need for such a framework arises because the different licenses can contain contradictory requirements, rendering it impossible to legally combine source code from separately-licensed software in order to create and publish a new program.
A software license is a legal instrument governing the use or redistribution of software. Since the 1970s, software copyright has been recognized in the United States. Despite the copyright being recognized, most companies prefer to sell licenses rather than copies of the software because it enables them to enforce stricter terms on redistribution.
The Unlicense software license, published around 2010, offers a public-domain waiver text with a fall-back public-domain-like license, inspired by permissive licenses but without an attribution clause. [12] [13] In 2015 GitHub reported that approximately 102,000 of their 5.1 million licensed projects, or 2%, use the Unlicense. [note 3]