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    W3.CSS is free to use. No license is necessary.

Does that not constitute a license?

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It sounds like whoever wrote that page doesn't know much about software licensing. Doesn't make me confident that w3schools has improved as much as people say it has.

However, it does seem to be MIT-licensed. Linked from the downloads page:

https://github.com/JaniRefsnes/w3css/blob/master/LICENSE

Would've helped if there any sort of license spec in the file header. All it's got is "/* W3.CSS 4.15 December 2020 by Jan Egil and Borge Refsnes */"

Being a bit more charitable, it could be that they are explaining things in a way that likely makes sense to someone just getting started. For many, “license” is a synonym for a software unlock code, not a legal contract.

They probably meant that you don’t need to pay for a license, not that there is no legal license

It constitutes evidence that the people behind W3.CSS don't fully understand copyright or licensing.

A very minimal one.

Decent chance it will stand up in court, but it's not going to make your legal department very happy.

This might be it?

https://github.com/JaniRefsnes/w3css/blob/master/LICENSE

Based on the github account being similar to the names in https://www.w3schools.com/w3css/4/w3.css, it is likely to be the origin.

Edit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32831880, beat me to it by a few seconds!

Yeah, but I would never work at a place with a legal department.

I like getting things done.

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