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For anyone who is curious (since there was a tad bit of concern about it in the past), here is a link to the core's license: https://github.com/atom/atom/blob/master/LICENSE.md

It looks pretty open to me. However, I don't speak legalese, so I may be misunderstanding it.



It seems to be a standard MIT License... like the blog entry says


Seems to be a bug in the MIT License that it doesn't refer to its own name within its text. By contrast the GNU GPL is more easily recognizable.


Congratulations on making it on to @shit_hn_says!

https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says/status/463711610172088320


For some reason I accidentally skipped over the 1st sentence of the blog. Thanks for the clarification.


Here's the page for this type of license on GitHub's own Choose a License site: http://choosealicense.com/licenses/mit/

The legalese is translated into bullet points in the right-hand column.


look like regular MIT licence no?

>Today, we're excited to announce that we are open-sourcing Atom under the MIT License




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