Switching from MIT to MIT-0

Currently, I have started releasing open-source software I create under the MIT-0(MIT No Attribution)license instead of the MIT license.

Like MIT license, MIT-0 license is a permissive licence that allows for the use, modification, and distribution of software without restriction. The difference from the MIT license is that there is no requirement to include the original copyright notice or give credit to the original author.

Nowadays, anyone can easily claim to have a clean-room implementation1, so I feel that authorship itself no longer feels like the primary source of value. I believe that what truly matters is the ability to bring ideas to life and develop them further.

If someone finds my OSS helpful, that’s enough for me.

P.S. This website and its articles are not licensed under MIT-0; all rights are reserved :)

Footnotes

  1. Whether the clean room approach used by LLMs is truly valid remains a matter of debate. ↩