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## The No Attribution" Bare License:

The "No Attribution" or "-0" license is a modification to the
usual MIT license that also removes the requirement for attribution. It is
roughly the same as an MIT license consisting of a sandwich of
(paragraph, line, paragraph), but it is missing the middle line of the
'sandwich'.

### Rationale

This license has proven useful for code that is intended for
developers to use as reference, teaching samples, examples, or
templates that other developers may modify for their own purposes.

In many of these cases, the initial developer may not want to impose
even the cost of attribution, or the use cases may not be conducive to
attribution.

The CC0 and various "do what you want" licenses and various public
domain dedications may be less attractive to the initial developer for
various reasons (i.e., a license is preferable to a public domain
dedication). The MIT license with all the attribution requirement
language removed also addresses this need.


### Additional Information

While researching prior to publishing this repo, we discovered
<https://romanrm.net/mit-zero>, which is an independent prior
formulation and publication of the same idea.


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this Contract Agreement/License Document & changing it is allowed.

0. Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of these works, code,
and/or associated documentation files (i.e "Software"), to deal in the Software without warranty as-is,
and/or associated documentation files (i.e "Software"), to deal in the Software as-is without warranty,
for any purpose & without restriction, including but not limited to; the rights to use, copy, modify,
merge, publish, distribute, sublicense/re-license, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
also permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so.
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### Note:
```
THIS LICENSE HAS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
```
```
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## The No Attribution" Bare License:

The "No Attribution" or "-0" license is a modification to the
usual MIT license that also removes the requirement for attribution. It is
roughly the same as an MIT license consisting of a sandwich of
(paragraph, line, paragraph), but it is missing the middle line of the
'sandwich'.

### Rationale

This license has proven useful for code that is intended for
developers to use as reference, teaching samples, examples, or
templates that other developers may modify for their own purposes.

In many of these cases, the initial developer may not want to impose
even the cost of attribution, or the use cases may not be conducive to
attribution.

The CC0 and various "do what you want" licenses and various public
domain dedications may be less attractive to the initial developer for
various reasons (i.e., a license is preferable to a public domain
dedication). The MIT license with all the attribution requirement
language removed also addresses this need.


### Additional Information

While researching prior to publishing this repo, we discovered
<https://romanrm.net/mit-zero>, which is an independent prior
formulation and publication of the same idea.

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