From a36c900ca1eda8d0f1f1d8bfb8c30597541f0ddc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carson <cpsievert1@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 11:43:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Close #439. Re-license to MIT

---
 DESCRIPTION | 2 +-
 LICENSE     | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 LICENSE

diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 60495bdd..be6e3979 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Authors@R: c(
     person("Posit Software, PBC", role = c("cph", "fnd"))
   )
 Description: Tools for HTML generation and output.
-License: GPL (>= 2)
+License: MIT + file LICENSE
 URL: https://github.com/rstudio/htmltools,
     https://rstudio.github.io/htmltools/
 BugReports: https://github.com/rstudio/htmltools/issues
diff --git a/LICENSE b/LICENSE
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4e1975fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/LICENSE
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+YEAR: 2014-2025
+COPYRIGHT HOLDER: Posit Software, PBC