[License-discuss] Is the old style MIT license a Free Software license

Bruce Perens bruce at perens.com
Tue Mar 13 19:36:35 UTC 2012


On 03/13/2012 12:31 PM, Karl Fogel wrote:
> I believe the "without fee" here refers to payment to the original 
> licensor
Yes. The statement is "permission [to exercise a number of rights] is 
hereby granted without fee."
If it were "permission [to exercise a number of rights] without fee is 
hereby granted", the answer would be different.

     Thanks

     Bruce
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