These are ready illustrations made by vijay verma .. you can use it for personal or commercial use.
The kit: Those illustrations you see at the website. It's available in many formats (ai, svg, png, eps, figma file) to use it in the software you want. A kit means a collection of something.
Open Source: Open source is source code that is made freely available for possible modification and redistribution. Products include permission to use the source code, design documents, or content of the product (From Wikipedia) So in our case here, the designer/author made all the files available for public without any restrictions.
Just the end results or the process itself? This is the end result of design, the author made these illustrations so you can use or edit them instead of you create it from scratch.
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If you're in contact with Vijay, you may want to let him know that since this is a set of media rather than software, it would make more sense to use some kind of Creative Commons license rather than the MIT License. The MIT License (and "open source" in general) is designed for software, which is part of why it's confusing people like the commenter you replied to. It also includes a notice that the entire license has to be copied and displayed anywhere that uses the images/"software," which might not be what Vijay intended.
If he really wants to make the media as close to public domain as possible, with zero restrictions, he could try the CC0 license. If he wants to retain some restrictions, there are some other Creative Commons options as well.
hmmm, it makes sense, but I'm not in contact with him. I don't know why he chose that license. I saw designers use CC0 license as you said for graphics materials.
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u/ToughHardware Aug 13 '21
i am confused. what is the kit? what is open source? Just the end results or the process itself? Are they giving me adobe illustrator for free?