Can you alter the MIT license?
Scott Johnston
johnston at vectaport.com
Mon Nov 15 23:58:45 UTC 1999
----------
>From: Jules Bean <jmlb2 at hermes.cam.ac.uk>
>In particular, the GPL says that you must make available the source of the
>whole work. Now this is an additional restriction on top the the MIT one,
>but it's not in conflict with the MIT one - it doesn't ask you to do
>anything you aren't allowed to do.
I see. This is what Bruce must have meant (about adding terms to the MIT
license that are not in conflict with the original terms). Know of anyone
doing this, adding a copyleft term to a non-copyleft piece of free software?
I've considered it doing this with ivtools, and asked for feedback from
users. I got one strong and well reasoned response that opened my eyes to
the partially immutable nature of the MIT license. Since then I have thrown
out all the years of assumptions about the BSD license and am trying to
rebuild my understanding from the ground up.
Scott Johnston
http://www.vectaport.com/ivtools/
More information about the License-discuss
mailing list