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licensing clarification #53

Closed tchollingsworth closed 11 years ago

tchollingsworth commented 11 years ago

Sorry if this is the wrong place, but the text is on the website...

As you might be aware, traditionally the MIT license requires that you include a copy of the license text when redistributing software.

But the license header in jQuery files link to http://jquery.org/license, which says (emphasis mine):

You are free to use a jQuery project in _commercial projects_ as long as the copyright header is left intact.

The word "commercial" in the free software world isn't well defined. This could be interpreted as permitting nonfree software to get away with just having the license header shipped with jQuery, but still requiring free software to include a copy of the MIT. :-(

Would you consider changing it something to like:

You are free to use a jQuery project in any project (even commercial ones) as long as the copyright header is left intact.

That way it's clear this is okay for everyone.

Thanks!

scottgonzalez commented 11 years ago

Updated and deployed. Thanks for the suggestion.