IT House December 26 news that the MIT License is a common open source project license, licensee has the right to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and sell copies of the software and software, but must include copyright notices and license notices.
Recently, when Microsoft forked a MIT open source project, it changed the copyright statement of the original author to itself, which caused some controversy.
The project is a grpc_bench developed by developer Lesny Rumcajs and is based on the MIT license. After forking the project, Microsoft changed the original "2020 Lesny Rumcajs" copyright notice to "Microsoft Corporation.", leaving many developers scratching their heads.
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It House understands that at present, Jeff Wilcox, head of Microsoft's open source project office, has responded to the matter, saying that the error was caused by a robot that submitted template files in a new repository.
Jeff Wilcox says the bot script is designed to prevent other problems encountered in the past when publishing projects, but it incorrectly runs at fork time. He will audit all fork repositories and revert similar changes to other projects.