How to put authorship using MIT license

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How to put authorship using MIT license

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

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The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2014-2015 almasaeed2010

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asked by anonymous 15.03.2015 / 17:38

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

If you're just using it, you do not have to do anything. If you are modifying, you do not have much to do either.

MIT is a very permissive license. Essentially it only forbids you to say that the code is yours, you can not claim authorship if it was not you who did. No one even needs to know if you are using any MIT licensed software on a product or service of yours. You can distribute your software containing MIT code without telling anyone. It has no requirements. Internally if you even say it was you who wrote that code will not happen at all, you just can not change the author's name for yours and publish the code.

If you are publishing the fonts of your own version, even if within your own project, you can add yourself as a co-author if you have added something expressive in your version. There you put in the most appropriate place in the header of the file, clearly indicating where you contributed, or in the changed function's header. Just be careful 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 rights to copy, use and distribute.

This license exists further to release authors from warranties and liabilities and does not allow you to "steal" the authorship and prosecute others by claiming that they are using something you do not have rights to. In practice it serves only for this. It may be better than the public domain that gives rise to the interpretation of authorship.

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