@arya MIT has many licenses, did you mean the expat license?


I'm not aware of any trademark on "MIT License", so you can go name a license you have written that if you want to, but that will be very confusing.

The expat license text is copyrighted (the lack of a verbatim copying permission sentence is yet another issue with expat, but at the same time that doesn't make it not copyrighted) but at the same time is quite short.

Arguably most sentences are not original or creative as they are the only way to write X thing and so if you were to start changing the sentences until the license looked completely different, you could claim fair use over anything that is derivative.

So yes.