You later relicense or sell commercial licenses (contributors signed no CLA) — MIT
- 1 · You publish under MITMIT License
- 2 · The situationYou later relicense or sell commercial licenses (contributors signed no CLA)You want to do this
- 3 · ResultWith conditionsNew versions can change; old ones stay
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Same scenario, other licenses
- With conditions BSD-3
- With conditions Apache-2.0
- With conditions MPL-2.0
- Blocked by license LGPL-3.0
- Blocked by license GPL-3.0
- Blocked by license AGPL-3.0
- With conditions MulanPSL-2.0
- Blocked by license SSPL-1.0
- With conditions BSL-1.1
- With conditions ELv2
- With conditions BSD-2
- With conditions ISC
- Allowed Unlicense
- With conditions Zlib
- With conditions Boost-1.0
- With conditions MIT-0
- With conditions PostgreSQL
- With conditions Unicode-3.0
- With conditions Apache-2.0+LLVM
- Blocked by license GPL-2.0
- Blocked by license GPL-2.0+CPE
- Blocked by license LGPL-2.1
- With conditions EPL-2.0
- With conditions EPL-1.0
- With conditions CDDL-1.0
- With conditions APSL-2.0
- With conditions Artistic-2.0
- With conditions Perl-5
- With conditions LPPL-1.3c
- With conditions FSL-1.1
- With conditions RSALv2
- With conditions Confluent CL
- With conditions UPL-1.0
Other scenarios for MIT
- AllowedA1 A cloud vendor sells your project as a managed service
- AllowedA2 Someone forks it and distributes a closed-source competitor
- AllowedA3 Embedded in a closed-source SaaS backend (not distributed)
- AllowedA4 Linked into a closed-source app or firmware and distributed
- Not addressedA5 Someone promotes a modified version with your name or trademark
- AllowedA6 Someone sells unmodified copies
- Not addressedB1 A user sues you for patent infringement and keeps using the code
- Not addressedB2 A contributor asserts patents on their contributed code
- Not addressedB3 A cross-border dispute: governing law and venue
- AllowedC2 Your code is merged into a GPL-3.0 project
- Blocked by licenseC3 You use a GPL-3.0 dependency and still ship under this license
- AllowedC4 The project is abandoned and someone forks it to continue
- Blocked by licenseC5 You want to block only big companies or competitors
- Not addressedC6 Key code was written by an employee and the employer objects
- Blocked by licenseD1 Someone removes copyright or attribution notices
- AllowedD2 Someone modifies files without marking the changes
- AllowedD3 Internal modification, no distribution and no external service
- AllowedD4 Used for military, surveillance or other uses you object to
- Not addressedD5 Used by a sanctioned entity
- Not addressedD6 Your code is used to train an AI model