Post by @paul
Any #MIT license nerds out there?
Quick question: I've discovered a client has thrown together a bunch of different AI generated "apps" (hosted around the planet on Vercel, Netlify, etc. On public links...but that's another story). These apps seem to use chunks of React JS - not React JS as a whole, just parts of it.
Now, the whole thing does not include the MIT license so I suspect it's in breach anyway, but I was wondering what the situation is around tearing some parts of the project up and using just those parts without accreditation to ReactJS? Seems a bit iffy, right?
@paul I'm neither a license nerd, nor a lawyer, but I think MIT does not require attribute and does not inflict any limitations on reusing the code.
@paul the attribution bit of the text is "The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software."
if you've got lawyers on deck to parse what "substantial" means in this context  (as with all legal things, almost unrelated to the english word it resembles), you could evaluate each case and decide, or you could assume at least one copied thing is big enough and just add attribution.
