[TYPO3-ect] Future of different AJAX-libs?

[Elmar Hinz]

R. van Twisk wrote:
> In regards to a other mail about MIT compatible with GPL:
> 
> 
>    GPL compatibility
> 
> Many of the most common free software
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software> licenses, such as the
> original MIT/X license <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_License>, the
> BSD license <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license> (in its current
> 3-clause form), and the LGPL
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License>, are
> "GPL-compatible". That is, their code can be combined with a GPLed
> program without conflict (the new combination would have the GPL applied
> to the whole). However, some open source software licenses are not
> GPL-compatible. Many have strongly advocated that open source software
> developers use only GPL-compatible licenses, because doing otherwise
> makes it difficult to reuse software in larger wholes.
> 
> Also see the List of software licenses
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_software_licenses> for examples of
> compatible and incompatible licenses.
> 
> 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_license

Hmmm, the stuff written on this page looks very inconsistent to me. The
license sais:

<quote>
Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
....
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included
in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
...
</quote>

So if i must include this license into copy, this means to me, that is
not possible to change the license.

But the commentar in the wiki stats exactly the contrary:

<quote>
Because the MIT License is not copyrighted, other groups can elect to
modify the MIT License to suit their own needs."
</quote>

What is this? I see a copyright notice in the first line. How can they
say it is not copyrighted?

Regards

Elmar

























http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MIT_license