What does the MIT license mean?

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Copyright (C) [year] [copyright holders]

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.

I’m using a template I picked up on a website and within it came the license above. I was wondering if with these terms I need to reference the copyright within my template or just keep the license file somewhere

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The license is permissive and considered equivalent to Simplified BSD without the endorsement clause. However, your text is much more explicit in dealing with the rights being transferred, stating that anyone who obtains a copy of the software and its associated documentation files can handle them without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sell copies of the software. The conditions imposed for this are only to maintain the copyright notice and a copy of the license on all copies of the software.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License

  • My question is whether to put copyrights in the template (visible to the user)

  • From what I read on that link that I pasted up there, it’s important to keep a copyright notice, not necessarily in the template. I think it might be in a file or something. But about that, I’m not sure.

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