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Can I remove files from repository I forked, if I make no changes to them? Please refer to previous post for more context. (iusearchlinux.fyi)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/programming

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Hey everyone, so I wrote this post a short time ago, and now I have another question regarding the same repository. I would like to remove the themes that I haven't touched as I don't want to have to deal with maintaining them every time there is a Lemmy update. Is that something I am allowed to do? Is it considered a crappy thing to do to the other dev?

Thanks in advance for all your help!

Edit: Of course I am clearly giving credit to the original dev both on here on lemmy, as well as within my code

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[–] prof 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A fork is effectively your own repo, so you can do with that as you please. Afaik MIT license doesn't hinder you from removing anything.

[–] promitheas@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That makes sense, just wanted to make sure there wasnt some weird condition

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, MIT license is absurdly free and flexible, so basically you just need to retain copyright notice and license copy.