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The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology...

The MIT License is a free software license originating at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), used by the MIT X Consortium. It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software. The license is also GPL-compatible, meaning that the GPL permits combination and redistribution with software that uses the MIT License. According to the Free Software Foundation, the MIT License is more accurately called the X11 license, since MIT has used many licenses for software and the license was first drafted for the X Window System. Software packages that use the MIT License include Expat, PuTTY, the Mono development platform class libraries, Ruby on Rails, Lua 5.0 onwards and the X Window System, for which the license was written. Some software packages dual license their products under the MIT License, such as the JavaScript library jQuery, which is licensed under both the MIT and GNU General Public License licenses. The license is defined as follows: The license can be modified to suit particular needs. For example, the Free Software Foundation agreed in 1998 to use a modified MIT