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		dublinben on Nov 21, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: MediaCrush – A website for serving media super fas... Is there a reason why you've written your own license, instead of using an established free software license like the GPL?

ddevault on Nov 21, 2013 [–]

What? The MIT license is OSI approved.

dublinben on Nov 21, 2013 | [–]

You're right, it just wasn't clear you were using the MIT License.

belorn on Nov 22, 2013 | | [–]

MIT license is one of those licenses which the license text do not reference itself by name.

A bit odd, but the requirements to use the software are understood to be simple.

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