Add full license text

[honzajavorek]

The MIT license explicitly requires to attach the full license text to the code or any distribution. Without this the license isn't fulfilled by the project itself and thus invalid.

This change should be released as a new patch version so it virally distributes to all projects depending on this library.

[ljharb]

The SPDX identifier is sufficient to hold weight in court, regardless of what the license requires, but adding this is fine. Thanks.

[honzajavorek]

Thank you!

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[honzajavorek]

@ljharb

SPDX identifier is sufficient to hold weight in court

I'd love to live in such world, but unfortunately, different company lawyers have different opinions and it just all makes developers' life harder if the explicit license text isn't in place. Our lawyers won't let us use dependencies without it, and to my knowledge, they're not alone with such opinion. I agree this is not likely to be a major problem at court, but the whole point of legal departments is to avoid companies going to court, thus being often very defensive in what they consider okay.

It's not my passion to add licenses to every project I want to use, but it's currently the only way I can continue to work.

[ljharb]

Lawyers' jobs are to evaluate risk vs reward, to minimize liability - paranoia is only useful to a point.

v2.1.1 and v1.7.1 are published.