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| 3 | title: License FAQs | |
| 4 | description: Commonly asked questions about Bootstrap's open source license. | |
| 5 | group: about | |
| 6 | --- | |
| 7 | ||
| 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. | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 | #### It requires you to: | |
| 11 | ||
| 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: | |
| 15 | ||
| 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: | |
| 22 | ||
| 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 | |
| 28 | ||
| 29 | #### It does not require you to: | |
| 30 | ||
| 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) | |
| 33 | ||
| 34 | The full Bootstrap license is located [in the project repository]({{ site.repo }}/blob/v{{ site.current_version }}/LICENSE) for more information. | |
