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Have you considered using zlib license instead of MIT? Because if people "just use" MIT licensed stuff, they must include the license code. With the zlib license they only need to do that if they fork the source code.


There may be some confusion about which MIT license we are talking about as there is more than one that originates from MIT or has MIT in the name.

When people refer to "MIT License" they usually mean the Expat License:

> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License?wprov=sfla1


> The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

So ... I must include the license code when I redistribute the binary of the software?




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