Has Jenkins always been MIT?

Just a question as Im interested. Has it always been MIT or has it been some more restrictive license?

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The license section of the governance page

says:

The Jenkins project uses the MIT License as the primary license of choice, for the code that we develop. Unless otherwise stated, all the code is under the MIT license.

The core of Jenkins is entirely under the MIT license, as is the majority of our infrastructure code (that runs the project itself), as well as many plugins.

Iā€™m not aware of a time when it was under a more restrictive license. The license file committed in 2008 declares the copyright beginning in 2004 and lists it as MIT licensed.

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