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Add Copyright & MIT License to Every File #22

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@WisTex

One of the conditions of the MIT license is:

"The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in
all copies or substantial portions of the Software."

But there have been past cases where someone has taken an MIT licensed software, and then relicensed it as APLG or another more restrictive license. While the MIT License does allow them to include MIT licensed code in an APLG project, it does not allow them to remove the copyright notice and MIT license from code they have not significantly altered.

I don't mind if they mix my code with their code which has a more restrictive license. I do mind them removing the copyright and MIT license, which violates the license.

The main issue is that when code with different licenses is mixed, it eventually becomes hard to determine which files belong to which license. To solve that issue, the copyright notice and MIT license will be referenced in every single file.

That way they can restrict their code any way they want, but all of the code I create stays MIT license.

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