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title: License FAQs
description: Commonly asked questions about Bootstrap's open source license.
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Bootstrap is released under the MIT license and is copyright {{< year >}}. Boiled down to smaller chunks, it can be described with the following conditions.

## It requires you to:

- Keep the license and copyright notice included in Bootstrap's CSS and JavaScript files when you use them in your works

## It permits you to:

- Freely download and use Bootstrap, in whole or in part, for personal, private, company internal, or commercial purposes
- Use Bootstrap in packages or distributions that you create
- Modify the source code
- Grant a sublicense to modify and distribute Bootstrap to third parties not included in the license

## It forbids you to:

- Hold the authors and license owners liable for damages as Bootstrap is provided without warranty
- Hold the creators or copyright holders of Bootstrap liable
- Redistribute any piece of Bootstrap without proper attribution
- Use any marks owned by Bootstrap in any way that might state or imply that Bootstrap endorses your distribution
- Use any marks owned by Bootstrap in any way that might state or imply that you created the Bootstrap software in question

## It does not require you to:

- 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
- Submit changes that you make to Bootstrap back to the Bootstrap project (though such feedback is encouraged)

The full Bootstrap license is located [in the project repository]({{< param repo >}}/blob/v{{< param current_version >}}/LICENSE) for more information.
