GitHub's Atom is open-sourced under MIT License
Atom, GitHub's text editor, turned a corner for programmers this month with the May 6 announcement that it is now open source, available under the MIT License. Atom is still OS X-exclusive; prebuilt versions of Atom are currently only available for OS X (10.8 or later). GitHub, though, indicated that may not be the case for very long. Linux and Windows are in the wings. "Today," the team announced, "we're excited to announce that we are open-sourcing Atom under the MIT License." Development will continue supported by a dedicated team." In the next few months, we'll be focusing on improving performance, releasing on Linux and Windows, and stabilizing APIs. We think being open source will help us get there faster, and more importantly, source access will give you the transparency and control you've told us you expect from your tools."