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ghaffyesterday at 2:03 PM1 replyview on HN

As I say, a murky area. The MIT license was basically created because the X-Windows folks wanted to release it into the public domain but IBM would have nothing to do with it so the MIT lawyers came up with a permissive license.

https://opensource.com/article/19/4/history-mit-license


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fortran77yesterday at 2:15 PM

What is “X-Windows”?

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