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en-wikipedia-org-6447		MIT License - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	3105	444	67	The MIT License is a permissive free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)[7] in the late 1980s.[8] As a permissive license, it puts only very limited restriction on reuse and has, therefore, high license compatibility.[9][10] The Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons projects use the alternative name Expat License. The X11 License[20] and the X11R6 "MIT License" chosen for ncurses by the Free Software Foundation[26] both include the following clause, absent in the Expat License:[17] This is a slight variant of the common MIT license form published by the Open Source Initiative As of 2020[update], according to WhiteSource Software[13] the MIT license was used in 27% of four million open source packages. Comparison of free and open-source software licenses This is a lax permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL. This is a lax permissive non-copyleft free software license, compatible with the GNU GPL. Categories: Free and open-source software licenses	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6447.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6447.txt