MIT Licence

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Mbed 2 is now deprecated. For the latest version please see the Mbed OS documentation.

The MIT License is the recommended open source licence for code published on mbed.org, and supported as part of the online collaboration infrastructure.

This license makes it clear to developers how they can use your code and the spirit in which your code was shared, and ensures that they have the legal freedom to use it in their projects as intended.

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Selecting 'MIT Licence' on your repository indicates that the code within is MIT Licensed and in the future will allow open source MIT code to be easily filtered and found, but you should also include the following license text at the start of all your project files:

The Licence

/* Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders>, MIT License
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software 
 * and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, 
 * including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, 
 * sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is 
 * furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
 *
 * The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or 
 * substantial portions of the Software.
 *
 * THE SOFTWARE IS 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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