open-source-software
Can a developer claim credit / ownership of my software licensed under the MIT License?
<p>A user forked a repository made by me that is licensed by the MIT License. He made a few changes to the code and added the following line to the README.md</p>
<pre><code>Made by [HisName]! Contact me at [HisName]#0675
</code></pre>
<p>Is that legal?</p>

<p>Providing your copyright notice (if any) and the MIT license has been included, yes.</p>

<p>From the MIT license page at:</p>
<p><a href="https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT" rel="nofollow noreferrer">MIT License Page</a></p>
<p>The following text appears:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>Copyright YEAR COPYRIGHT HOLDER</p>
<p>Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
&quot;Software&quot;), 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:</p>
<p><strong>The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be</strong>
<strong>included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.</strong></p>
</blockquote>
<p>As long as the conditions spelled out in the final sentence are followed, yes &quot;HisName&quot; can do whatever he wants.</p>
<p>If you wanted to protect against this, you should have chosen a different license.  You cannot take back this previously licensed code but any future releases or updates can use a different license.</p>
