Do I need to Refer to the Mit license on my website?

Question

If my site uses jquery and jquery plugins, am I supposed to refer to the MIT license and give credit to the creators? Ordoes this only apply to software redistribution?

Answer 1

The MIT license linked to by the jQuery Web site:

Copyright (c) 2010 John Resig, http://jquery.com/

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

I'd say this is pretty self-explanatory. If you distribute substantial portions of the software, the copyright notice must be included.

EDIT:

Upon reading your question again, maybe you're wondering if you have to display the notice on your Web pages somewhere. In that case I would say no, the notice in the scripts themselves is enough. Just don't delete them.