src/scss/bootstrap-4.0.0-alpha.6/docs/about/license.md

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   2 layout: docs
   3 title: License FAQs
   4 description: Commonly asked questions about Bootstrap's open source license.
   5 group: about
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   8 Bootstrap is released under the MIT license and is copyright {{ site.time | date: "%Y" }} Twitter. Boiled down to smaller chunks, it can be described with the following conditions.
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  10 #### It requires you to:
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  12 * Keep the license and copyright notice included in Bootstrap's CSS and JavaScript files when you use them in your works
  13
  14 #### It permits you to:
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  16 - Freely download and use Bootstrap, in whole or in part, for personal, private, company internal, or commercial purposes
  17 - Use Bootstrap in packages or distributions that you create
  18 - Modify the source code
  19 - Grant a sublicense to modify and distribute Bootstrap to third parties not included in the license
  20
  21 #### It forbids you to:
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  23 - Hold the authors and license owners liable for damages as Bootstrap is provided without warranty
  24 - Hold the creators or copyright holders of Bootstrap liable
  25 - Redistribute any piece of Bootstrap without proper attribution
  26 - Use any marks owned by Twitter in any way that might state or imply that Twitter endorses your distribution
  27 - Use any marks owned by Twitter in any way that might state or imply that you created the Twitter software in question
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  29 #### It does not require you to:
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  31 - Include the source of Bootstrap itself, or of any modifications you may have made to it, in any redistribution you may assemble that includes it
  32 - Submit changes that you make to Bootstrap back to the Bootstrap project (though such feedback is encouraged)
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  34 The full Bootstrap license is located [in the project repository]({{ site.repo }}/blob/master/LICENSE) for more information.