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MIT is not a gift. It still requires attribution, notice and license term.

This lawsuit is even not about copy left.

so? the gist of the mit license is, "use without restriction". without the license the default is that you have no right to the work, so the license is what makes it a gift. you're welcome

no it very much isn't use without restriction - you must credit the the author and otherwise follow the licensee. I can't copy and republish code from the Nvidia driver leaks because those are copyrighted by Nvidia (unless I have permission from them). In the same way you cannot copy and republish code from a MIT project unless I have permission from them (via the MIT licensee).

i would suggest reading the text [0] to educate yourself

[0] https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT

I would suggest to read the text and then contribute to the discussion. We have access to search engines too.

But doesn't it say:

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

So that's a required attribution if you want to follow the MIT license?

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