The MIT License
The lawyers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created their own version of the BSD license. They cleaned up some of the vague language of the BSD license and made their version simpler to read and understand. A copy of the current version of the MIT license is shown in the Appendices.
The license grant of the MIT license reads as follows:
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 ...
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