MIT许可证之名源自麻省理工学院（Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT），又称“X条款”（X License）或“X11条款”（X11 License）
有许多团体均采用MIT许可证。例如著名的ssh连接软件PuTTY与X Window System (X11)危和殃腊即为例子。Expat, Mono开发平台库，Ruby on Rail戒阀习s, Lua 5.0 onwards等等也都采用MIT授权条款。
Copyright (C) <year> <copyright holders>
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 to do so, subject to the following conditions:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. [1]
- 被授权人权利
被授权人有权利使用、复制、修改、合并、出版发行、散布、再授权及贩售软件及软件的副本。
被授权人可根据程序的需要修改授权条款为适当的内容。
- 被授权人义务
在软件和软件的所有副本中都必须包含版权声明和许可声明。
- 其他重要特性
MIT与其他许可证的区别
