# Has Jenkins always been MIT? **URL:** \ **Category:** Ask a question\ **Tags:** question\ **Created:** [February 16, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/has-jenkins-always-been-mit/5830 "2023-02-16T18:39:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wojtekxtx](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/wojtekxtx/32/3036_2.png) [@wojtekxtx](https://community.jenkins.io/u/wojtekxtx)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 6:39pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/has-jenkins-always-been-mit/5830/1 "2023-02-16T18:39:44Z")
Just a question as Im interested. Has it always been `MIT` or has it been some more restrictive license? ---
**Author:** ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2023, 7:05pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/has-jenkins-always-been-mit/5830/2 "2023-02-16T19:05:23Z")
The license section of the governance page > **[Project Governance Document](https://www.jenkins.io/project/governance/#license)** > > Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software says: > The Jenkins project uses the [MIT License](https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT) 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](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins) is entirely under the MIT license, as is the majority of our [infrastructure code](https://github.com/jenkins-infra) (that runs the project itself), as well as many plugins. I’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.