title: MIT-licentie
text: De MIT-licentie is een softwarelicentie voor opensourcesoftware. Het is ontstaan op Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Net als de BSD-licentie staat de MIT-licentie bijna alles toe. De enige voorwaarde is dat het copyright statement in alle kopieën moet blijven staan. Verder mag de software ook gebruikt worden als onderdeel van propriëtaire software.
  
  De MIT-licentie is goedgekeurd volgens de Definitie van Vrije Culturele Werken.
  
  Licentietekst 
  De MIT-licentie luidt als volgt:
  
   Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>
  
   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person
   obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation
   files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without
   restriction, including without limitation the rights to use,
   copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
   copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
   Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following
   conditions:
  
   The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
   included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
  
   THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
   EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES
   OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
   NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT
   HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY,
   WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
   FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR
   OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
  
  Aanverwante onderwerpen 
   LGPL, Lesser General Public License
   GFDL, GNU Free Documentation License
   Public domain software
   Vrije software
   Opensourcesoftware
   GNU
   Linux
  
  Externe link 
  
   De officiële MIT-licentie
  
  Vrijesoftwarelicentie
  Opensourcelicentie