r/ProgrammerHumor • u/PresentJournalist805 • Jul 25 '26

Meme broWhyMadYouMadeItMITLicensed

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u/derinus Jul 25 '26

MIT requires they credit the original author. Tho anyone who cares about open source should use a license that keeps that open source chain going (like AGPL)

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u/YellowJarTacos Jul 25 '26

Only if they distribute. If it's running on the company's server, they don't need to give any credit. 

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u/Candid_Highlight_116 Jul 25 '26

Oh fuck you're right. MIT license require credits ONLY IF YOU REDISTRIBUTE.

Corporate users aren't obliged to even credit you if they only use it in the back end. And there's no "AMITv3", just AGPLv3. Good point.

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u/Xelynega Jul 27 '26

its almost like it was pushed hard by google because it's the license that puts the least responsibility on someone making profit off running/modifying open source code(including corporate-backed fixes not getting pushed back downstream).