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Angular licensing

Angular licensing

- A software license is a legal document that governs where and how you can use a piece of code owned by someone else. Some licenses have a lot of restrictions that require payment to use the software. Other licenses are more permissive. And some developers release their software into the public domain, which has no restrictions at all. The type of license that comes with your JavaScript framework matters. This is especially true if you're building an application that includes proprietary code or that end users will pay for. Some licenses won't let you do that. Lucky for us, as of this recording, Angular is released under a very permissive license called the MIT license. This license started back in the late 1980s at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hence the name, MIT. Some places call it the Expat license or the X11 license, but the terms of use are mostly the same. It's one of the most popular licenses out…

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