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by Dylan16807 1237 days ago
That's not true. I can go put the MIT license text in every folder on my computer and it won't actually apply the license to anything.
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Ok, it's not true in the general case, but it's true in this specific case. The project was intended to be an open source project from the beginning; we were intending to open source everything.