Can you alter the MIT license?

Scott Johnston johnston at vectaport.com
Mon Nov 15 19:51:43 UTC 1999


>From: bruce at perens.com (Bruce Perens)
>To: johnston at vectaport.com, license-discuss at opensource.org
>Subject: Re: Can you alter the MIT license?
>Date: Mon, Nov 15, 1999, 11:29 AM
>

>You can _add_ terms after the MIT/X/Apache license has been applied to a
>program, and distribute the result, as long as they do not conflict with
>the pre-existing terms.

Can you give an example of a term you can *add* to a non-copyleft free
software license that would not conflict with the freedoms originally
granted?

Scott Johnston



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