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http://wiki.x.org/Downloads_terms.html ( old site of X license ) doesn't show up anymore, but archive.org archive of http://www.x.org/Downloads_terms.html still does, and is different than the text of this license.
I cannot comprehend this license. Is this a new-generation copyleft license, which was made simpler than GPL? Or it this a very old license, and it is simple because software licenses were not that complex back in that time? So, when was the MIT license first used?
According to github's advanced search, more than 5 million repositories (not counting forks) use the MIT license, more than ten times the number using GPL 2.0 and more than 20 times the number using any form of BSD. There are other measures of significance, but by most of them MIT ranks pretty highly.
I don't know how the values are determined for "WikiProject Computing |class=C |importance=low" but this doesn't seem quite right.
A recent edit was promotional because it is used to advertise a single organization, unlikely to be used by bona-fide third-parties TEDickey (talk) 00:10, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
It's not on the SPDX website. Your edit points to Fairfield programming. Perhaps you were referring to some mailing-list comment, perhaps not. Either way, the edits are as noted not an improvement TEDickey (talk) 22:07, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
The license text for the MIT No Attribution license in this article starts with the name of the license. This is inconsistent with the other licenses. The name is indeed included on SPDX (using a special colour) but that's the case with the original MIT and other licenses as well. The name is not included in the license text on the OSI page. I could have gone ahead and made the change myself but I wasn't sure if some of the citations would have to be updated as well. 185.205.224.133 (talk) 10:00, 14 May 2023 (UTC)