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gus_massayesterday at 12:06 PM2 repliesview on HN

From the readme.md

> A new compiled version is released under an MIT license every month on the 16th.

What does than even mean? Is it equivalent to what we use to call "freeware". Is it legal to modify the binaries?


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Ekarosyesterday at 5:37 PM

Broadly. You can do anything you want with MIT licensed software as long as you include the copyright and warranty notice.

I suppose with "freeware" technically you could be prevent from redistributing or selling it. As there is no hard definition on that term.

dotancohenyesterday at 12:10 PM

I'm not sure about MIT, but the GNU license specifically requires the application licensed to be available in source code (human readable and editable form or similar verbiage).

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