[DanielStraight]

I'd suggest reading this line-by-line explanation of the MIT license: https://writing.kemitchell.com/2016/09/21/MIT-License-Line-b...

Once you understand why everything that's in a license is there, it's hard to imagine making it much shorter.

The Apache license does a good job of separating out the full text and a smaller boilerplate to put on each file, so that may be a good option.