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Bun LICENSE.md: third-party attributions updated, Bun stays MIT

The LICENSE.md file in oven-sh/bun was edited, but Bun's own licence did not change: the opening line still says Bun is MIT-licensed, and the JavaScriptCore/WebKit LGPL-2 section is the same. The edits reword and expand the table of statically linked and ported third-party code, mostly for `bun lint`, `bun fmt`, `bun check` and `bun test`. The entries added include ESLint, typescript-eslint, espree, V8 error messages, diff-match-patch and the @eslint packages, under MIT, BSD, ISC and Apache 2.0 licences.

Published
Bun itself is MIT-licensed.
— github.com, read the source

What this means for you

This affects everyone who uses Bun, however you use it.

Ways out

  • Stay on Bun; no action neededLow effort

    Bun remains MIT-licensed, and the edits only add to or reword the attributions for bundled third-party code.

  • Node.jsMedium effort

    The most widely used JavaScript runtime, if you want to move for other reasons.

  • DenoMedium effort

    An alternative runtime with its own built-in tooling.

What the source doesn't say

  • The end of the AFTER text is cut off, so later rows of the table could not be checked.

Summary, not legal advice; read the source.