[License-review] Approval request for a New MIT license

Gervase Markham gerv at mozilla.org
Tue Nov 4 17:43:39 UTC 2014


On 22/10/14 14:50, Vipin Kumar wrote:
> I am not sure I understood entirely your message below, but we want
> to apply for a new MIT open source license for our SDKs (software
> development kit).

I think there may be a misunderstanding here. You don't need anyone's
permission to apply an existing open source license to your software.

If you have written a new one rather than opting to reuse an existing
well-known one, you need to explain why. There is a high bar for the
approval of new licenses, and they have to add something genuinely new.

Gerv



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