How to place authorship using MIT license

Question

According to the MIT license I have to put the copyright and where? Or I do not need to put?

MIT license

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 almasaeed2010

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Answer 1

I already point out that I am not a lawyer. If you have major concerns, consult one. The risk is yours to trust random people informing you about laws and licenses.

If you are just using don’t have to do anything. If you are modifying also don’t have much to do.

MIT is a very permissive license. Essentially it just forbids you to say that the code is yours, you can’t claim authorship if you didn’t do it. No one even needs to know if you are using any MIT-licensed software in a product or service of yours. You can distribute your software containing MIT code without telling anyone. There is no requirement. Internally if you even say that it was you who wrote that code will not happen, you just can not change the name of the author for yours and publish the code.

If you’re going to publish the fonts of your own version, even if within another project of yours, you can add yourself as co-author if you added something expressive in your version. Then you put it in the most appropriate place, in the file header, indicating clearly where you contributed, or in the header of the changed function. Just take care to make it clear that you are not the original author.

MIT is close to the public domain, except that it does not give up the authorship. But it gives up all copyrights, use and distribution.

This license exists more to release the authors of warranties and liabilities and not allow you to "steal" the authorship and sue others claiming that they are using something you have no rights to. In practice it serves only for this. It can be better than public domain that allows the interpretation of authorship.

MIT is the real free software license. It’s not a free schizophrenic where you have a lot of obligation.