Can you modify code under MIT license?
Under the terms of MIT-licensed code, anyone may copy or distribute the code or any derived/modified version of the code, and may charge a fee or do this free of charge. If MIT-licensed code is modified, the original software remains MIT-licensed, but the modifications themselves can be licensed under other terms.
What is the purpose of the MIT license?
The MIT license gives users express permission to reuse code for any purpose, sometimes even if code is part of proprietary software. As long as users include the original copy of the MIT license in their distribution, they can make any changes or modifications to the code to suit their own needs.
Is it legal to relicense code under the MIT License?
It’s technically legal. The MIT (Expat) license places a few restrictions on you. These are a subset of the GPL license. Therefore, if you relicense the code under the GPL, and keep the MIT notice, then you’ve satisfied the terms of the MIT license and may legally redistribute the code.
Can You incorporate code into a GPL project?
Even though the permissive license of the external project grants legal permission to incorporate code from that project into a GPL’d project, the developer of the GPL’d project must nonetheless comply with the notice preservation requirement in the permissive license.
What’s the difference between a GPL and MIT License?
The MIT license includes all the rights the GPL gives and more. And while people who receive your distribution only receive a GPL license to elements you added, they still receive an MIT license (from the original authors, not from you) to any elements contained in the work that the authors offered under that license.
Do you have to sublicense rights under the GPL?
When I sublicense code, I cannot grant rights that I didn’t originally have. In the case of the GPL, I am explicitly forbidden to sublicense only some rights. But neither in law nor in the MIT license do I have an obligation to sublicense all rights as a whole.