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Clarify the purpose of the MIT license. This change replaces the jarg…
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Update getting_started/introduction/godot_design_philosophy.rst
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Expand Up @@ -98,10 +98,11 @@ game code. See `The Godot editor is a Godot game`_ below.
Open source
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Godot offers a fully open source codebase under the **MIT license**.
This means all the technologies that ship with it have to be Free
(as in freedom) as well.
For the most part, they're developed from the ground up by contributors.
Godot offers a fully open source codebase under the **MIT license**. This means
that the codebase is free for anyone to download, use, modify, or share, as long
as its license file is kept intact. Thanks to this open source license, most of
the technologies that define Godot are developed from the ground up by
community contributors.

Anyone can plug in proprietary tools for the needs of their projects —
they just won't ship with the engine. This may include Google AdMob,
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