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tom_yesterday at 12:18 PM1 replyview on HN

The MIT licence does not require this.


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ekjhgkejhgkyesterday at 1:10 PM

I'm not an expert, but I very much doubt this.

The FSF calls it a "free license" [1] and I don't think they would if they didn't make the source code available.

Source code available is necessary but not sufficient for Free software, see [2]

> Freedoms 1 and 3 require source code to be available because studying and modifying software without its source code can range from highly impractical to nearly impossible.

[1] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html#Expat

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software

EDIT Oh sorry, you mean for the LICENSE to be available. Never mind then.

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