How MIT license works

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Hello

Please clarify few of my doubts about MIT license.

  1. MIT license allows a licensee to distribute the software with a different license. But is it applicable to the derived work only or to the verbatim copy as-well?

  2. Lets say, I make a derived work out of MIT licensed software and then distribute it through a more restricting license ( lets say proprietary - distributing not allowed ).
    But the MIT license expects
    “The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.”

Of-course there won’t be any issues in including the copyright. But if we include the license text, won’t it contradict the new more restrictive license ie. a proprietary license?

Thanks in advance.

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The MIT License is probably the most readable, shortest and easiest to understand licenses. Read the quote I posted above carefully.

Also, the jQuery javascript library is famous for using the license, and their site also explains it well: http://jquery.org/license

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Why do you think a random person here will be any more knowledgeable? You need to speak to a lawyer if you’re not sure, or talk to the people at MIT who developed it.

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Hi,
Thanks for the reply. But I already gone through MIT license and countless of other articles / blogs on this subject. MIT license is not clearing specifying the aspects I asked in the original question.

Thanks

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“The MIT License states more explicitly the rights given to the end-user, including the right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell the software.”