Bootstrap/site/content/docs/5.1/about/license.md

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layout: docs
title: License FAQs
description: Commonly asked questions about Bootstrap's open source license.
group: about
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Bootstrap is released under the MIT license and is copyright {{< year >}} Twitter. 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 Twitter in any way that might state or imply that Twitter endorses your distribution
- Use any marks owned by Twitter in any way that might state or imply that you created the Twitter 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.
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Switch to Hugo. No more Ruby dependency and most important more than 10 times less build time (at least on Windows)! 2019-01-08 17:33:28 +01:00			`Bootstrap is released under the MIT license and is copyright {{< year >}} Twitter. Boiled down to smaller chunks, it can be described with the following conditions.`
Redo license FAQs in markdown 2014-07-12 09:54:37 +02:00
docs(licence): fix headings hierarchy (#30080) 2020-01-25 10:10:07 +01:00			`## It requires you to:`
Redo license FAQs in markdown 2014-07-12 09:54:37 +02:00
Fix some easy Markdown linting issues - Always use dashes for bullets - Add some basic alt text for our readme OC sponsors 2020-05-14 07:33:49 +02:00			`- Keep the license and copyright notice included in Bootstrap's CSS and JavaScript files when you use them in your works`
Redo license FAQs in markdown 2014-07-12 09:54:37 +02:00
docs(licence): fix headings hierarchy (#30080) 2020-01-25 10:10:07 +01:00			`## It permits you to:`
Redo license FAQs in markdown 2014-07-12 09:54:37 +02:00
			`- 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`

docs(licence): fix headings hierarchy (#30080) 2020-01-25 10:10:07 +01:00			`## It forbids you to:`
Redo license FAQs in markdown 2014-07-12 09:54:37 +02:00
			`- 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 Twitter in any way that might state or imply that Twitter endorses your distribution`
			`- Use any marks owned by Twitter in any way that might state or imply that you created the Twitter software in question`

docs(licence): fix headings hierarchy (#30080) 2020-01-25 10:10:07 +01:00			`## It does not require you to:`
Redo license FAQs in markdown 2014-07-12 09:54:37 +02:00
			`- 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)`

Switch to Hugo. No more Ruby dependency and most important more than 10 times less build time (at least on Windows)! 2019-01-08 17:33:28 +01:00			`The full Bootstrap license is located [in the project repository]({{< param repo >}}/blob/v{{< param current_version >}}/LICENSE) for more information.`