MIT License Generator

The most popular open-source license, ready to drop into your repository.

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Dual / multi-licensee.g. MIT OR Apache-2.0 (Rust's convention)

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Public domain

Content, fonts & data

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MIT License in plain EnglishPopular

A short and simple permissive license with conditions only requiring preservation of copyright and license notices. Licensed works, modifications, and larger works may be distributed under different terms and without source code.

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Commercial use
Modification
Distribution
Private use

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License & copyright notice

You can't / no

No liability
No warranty

Create a text file (typically named LICENSE or LICENSE.txt) in the root of your source code and copy the text of the license into the file. Replace [year] with the current year and [fullname] with the name (or names) of the copyright holders.

Used by: Babel .NET Rails

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Source file header (SPDX)

// SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 <copyright holder>
// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

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[![License: MIT](https://img.shields.io/badge/License-MIT-yellow.svg)](https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html)

README section

## License

This project is licensed under the MIT License (`MIT`) — see [LICENSE](LICENSE) for details.

package.json

"license": "MIT"

Cargo.toml

license = "MIT"

pyproject.toml (PEP 639)

license = "MIT"
license-files = ["LICEN[CS]E*"]

composer.json

"license": "MIT"

*.gemspec

spec.license = "MIT"

.csproj (NuGet)

<PackageLicenseExpression>MIT</PackageLicenseExpression>

pom.xml

<licenses>
  <license>
    <name>MIT</name>
    <url>https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT.html</url>
  </license>
</licenses>

pubspec / Helm / others

license: MIT

Copyright (c) 2026 Your Name

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Frequently Asked Questions

Anyone can use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense and sell the software, as long as the copyright and license notice are kept.

It's customary. Use the first year of publication or a range like 2019-2026.

MIT without the attribution requirement — nothing needs to be kept.

Set "license": "MIT" — the snippet is shown below the license.

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