Question about the MIT License and open/closed source

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Hallo,

I have a small useful application (Websites managment tool developed in Java) which I want to publish online for free (every one can use it for free). But I do not want to make it opne source yet. It is additional affort to clean up the code, documantation and so on... And this is just a small useful tool.

Can I use the MIT license in this case, or the MIT license obligates me to distribute the source code? Which license is best in this case?

Thanks.

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