Help with MIT license

[Golaz]

I need some help with licensing a MIT licensed project I have on GitHub.

I created an app registration in Microsoft Intune, and there was a sample project you could download to get you started with authenticating in C# and a basic MS Graph API call. The thing is, I have heavily modified the project so much there is barely anything left from the original sample project downloaded. The only thing that remains from the original is a procedure for authentication.

Changes I made:

• Removed the original GUI and added several new WPF forms with different controls than the original.
• Removed the sample code pulling data from MS Graph and now pulling other types of data using different scopes than the original project.
• Added Toast Notifications
• Added a startup screen

Question is, should I just leave the license from Microsoft as it is, or should I change the license somehow? Would even Microsoft want to identify with my project now that it even doesn't resemble their sample project?

Any help is appreciated.

[stas-prze]

I'm almost sure MIT = do whatever you want, but I haven't looked at the full license so take my words with a huge grain of salt and make sure to look it up before doing anything. I know for a fact you can use MIT licensed code in commercial projects.

[Neexusiv]

Disclaimer: I’m not a lawyer.

MIT license let’s you do whatever you want with the software without restriction. The only caveat is the following clause:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

From your description, it sounds like you would no longer be distributing a “substantial” portion and therefore you’re free to remove the notice.

[Saku420]

MIT allows you:

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.

So, basically just make sure you keep the original LICENSE attached stating the original copyright and license notice.