Actually, that is not true. There are several MIT licenses, so unless the actual license text is included, it is ambiguous what the license is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License#Various_versions Having a LICENSE file in the package makes it clear what the license is, or alternatively stating the full license in the README.md -- Dick On Mar 27, 2013, at 9:55 AM, Austin William Wright <diamondma...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote: > A license is something that is granted by the author at distribution-time, it > need not be included in the package contents. If an author wholly owns the > copyright on their work, they can offer the program to you under any license > they want, regardless of what the file inside the repository or package says. > > So that paragraph doesn't actually, really, do anything - it's not a > clause/stipulation (that is to say, it has no "teeth"). Granted that the > author is able to make the full text of the license available upon request, a > package that the author says is MIT licensed, even without including the full > text, is still MIT licensed. > > On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:12:03 AM UTC-7, kapouer wrote: > Hi, > saying the author's work is MIT licensed is not enough, > the full text of the license must be there too, as written > in its second paragraph : > > The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be > included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. > > I write this here because i see countless node modules in this case, > whose authors probably believe their software to have a very liberal, > free, and open-source license - but they have de facto no license at all. > > Jérémy. > > PS: because i see one module per day in this situation > > -- > -- > Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ > Posting guidelines: > https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "nodejs" group. > To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "nodejs" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to nodejs@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to nodejs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
