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How to license my closed source & freeware (donation ware) - using creative commons?

After doing a bit of research about licensing my free software, I reached this: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ how do I include ...
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Ethics and best practices when forking code base

I have a question as to the proper best practices and ethics revolving forking code. I've taken code base licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 and brought ...
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Automatic generate code: “derived work”?

For example, I've GPL software. I'm the author of this GPL software. This GPL software has, between its code, Doxygen comments. These Doxygen comments are written to generate a CC-BY-SA html page, in ...
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Is Creative-Commons license compatible with Apache License?

For example if I have code that contains parts of code rewritten from code found here or on Stack Overflow or other Creative-Commons licensed code, can my final code be licensed with an Apache ...
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What am I allowed to do programmatically with pictures that have a Creative Commons “don't modify” license

I'm working on a project that uses some icons that are under a Creative Commons license (ND) that forbids modification of the picture. What can I do with this icons as a programmer? Can I modify ...
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Switching licenses, or cross licensing existing GNU GPL v3 software

I'm in the process of making a fork of GNU coreutils with a range of modifications. I'd like to release the result as an open-source project, but I'm not so much of a fan of GNU GPL as a license. Is ...
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can gpl code contain more restrictively licensed code? (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)

There is a wordpress theme I am modifying to create my own derived work. This original wordpress theme has the GPLv2 licence in it's root directory, so I assume that the entire theme is GPL code. ...
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Can I use a JQuery plugin under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license in a commercial webapp?

if a JQuery plugin is released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license, can it be used as part of a closed source commercial web application which is not redistributed, just accessible on the web?
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Using CC Music in my project

Well, I am not sure about is this is the right StackExchange site to ask this, but since can accept question about Software law, i think it's almost on topic here. If I use creative commons music for ...
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Asset licensing and GPL compatibility

If I want to bundle fonts and images with an application released under the GPL, are there specific requirements for the license of these assets?