Ліцэнзія MIT — гэта дазвольная ліцэнзія на свабоднае праграмнае забеспячэнне, створаная Масачусецкім тэхналагічным інстытутам (MIT) у канцы 1980-х гадоў.[1] Як дазвольная ліцэнзія яна накладвае вельмі мала абмежаванняў на паўторнае выкарыстанне кода ў іншых праграмах.[2][3]
У адрозненне ад капілефт-ліцэнзій ліцэнзія MIT дазваляе выкарыстанне кода ў прапрыетарных праграмах пры ўмове, што ўсе копіі праграм ўключаюць тэкст умовы ліцэнзіі MIT і паведамленне аб аўтарскім праве.[4][5] У 2015 годзе ліцэнзія MIT была самай папулярнай ліцэнзіяй сярод рэпазіторыяў на GitHub.[6]
Ліцэнзія MIT выкарыстоўваецца ў такіх вядомых праектах як Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Lua і jQuery, таксама вядомае яе выкарыстанне ў такіх кампаніях, як Microsoft (.NET), Google (Angular) і Meta (React).
Haff. The mysterious history of the MIT License (нявызн.). opensource.com. opensource.com. — «The date? The best single answer is probably 1987. But the complete story is more complicated and even a little mysterious. [...] Precursors from 1985. The X Consortium or X11 License variant from 1987. Or the Expat License from 1998 or 1999.» Праверана 30 ліпеня 2019. Hanwell. Should I use a permissive license? Copyleft? Or something in the middle? (нявызн.). opensource.com (28 студзеня 2014). — «Permissive licensing simplifies things One reason the business world, and more and more developers [...], favor permissive licenses is in the simplicity of reuse. The license usually only pertains to the source code that is licensed and makes no attempt to infer any conditions upon any other component, and because of this there is no need to define what constitutes a derived work. I have also never seen a license compatibility chart for permissive licenses; it seems that they are all compatible.» Праверана 30 мая 2015. Licence Compatibility and Interoperability (нявызн.)(недаступная спасылка). Open-Source Software - Develop, share, and reuse open source software for public administrations. joinup.ec.europa.eu. — «The licences for distributing free or open source software (FOSS) are divided in two families: permissive and copyleft. Permissive licences (BSD, MIT, X11, Apache, Zope) are generally compatible and interoperable with most other licences, tolerating to merge, combine or improve the covered code and to re-distribute it under many licences (including non-free or 'proprietary').» Архівавана з першакрыніцы 17 чэрвеня 2015. Праверана 30 мая 2015. Licence Compatibility and Interoperability (нявызн.)(недаступная спасылка). Open-Source Software - Develop, share, and reuse open source software for public administrations. joinup.ec.europa.eu. — «The licences for distributing free or open source software (FOSS) are divided in two families: permissive and copyleft. Permissive licences (BSD, MIT, X11, Apache, Zope) are generally compatible and interoperable with most other licences, tolerating to merge, combine or improve the covered code and to re-distribute it under many licences (including non-free or 'proprietary').» Архівавана з першакрыніцы 17 чэрвеня 2015. Праверана 30 мая 2015.«Licence Compatibility and Interoperability». Open-Source Software — Develop, share, and reuse open source software for public administrations. joinup.ec.europa.eu. Archived from the original Архівавана 17 чэрвеня 2015. on June 17, 2015. Retrieved May 30, 2015. The licences for distributing free or open source software (FOSS) are divided in two families: permissive and copyleft. Permissive licences (BSD, MIT, X11, Apache, Zope) are generally compatible and interoperable with most other licences, tolerating to merge, combine or improve the covered code and to re-distribute it under many licences (including non-free or 'proprietary').