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jpc0 • yesterday at 1:20 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

MIT does not wave the right to attribution so no even under MIT it is illegal to reattribue work.

Authorship and the underlying code are seperate rights under law.


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esperent • yesterday at 4:33 PM

> MIT does not wave the right to attribution

Waive. And no, it doesn't but it doesn't require attribution either. So you're falling back on copyright law which is unlikely to protect you here - there's a reason people include licenses, after all.