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Licensing an app made by Laravel

Greetings, I have been using the main Laravel features to develop a Project Management web app for a client. The app is to be owned by the client and once ready, it is meant to be packaged and distributed commercially. It’s also currently hosted on a private server.

My question is, how will the app be licensed? I have found from unofficial records that Laravel itself is free for commercial use and licensed under the MIT license. If that’s true, then what license binds the app made by Laravel?

Although I have searched a lot, I can’t seem to find any license agreement text for the Laravel framework that clearly states what is permitted and what not.

Thank you for any response in advance! LK

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Lordkarnak's avatar

Of course! It was on github. Thank you very much.

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jlrdw's avatar

A website which is much different than say a executable file, is much better suited for something like SaaS.

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martinbean's avatar

@lordkarnak The Laravel framework components are MIT licensed. But the application that you make, you can license however you wish.

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