Questions about the implementation of software licenses on software, including questions about open-source licenses.
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Can I convert ALL CAPS sections of an OSI license to regular case (and bold)?
Update: I've got a response from the FSF on this down in the answers
From the answer to Can I remove all-caps and shorten the disclaimer on my License?, it appears that the APP CAPS sections of a ...
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ISC license advice [closed]
What is your opinion on the ISC license?
Do you think it is suitable as MIT or Simplified BSD license replacement?
What are the pros and cons of ISC compared to MIT or BSD?
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Best permissive license for a utility library?
I have a small utility library of useful stuff written in Java that I plan on releasing open source. I've been wavering on what license to use. I quite like the BSD license, which is short and easy ...
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How permissive is this license? [closed]
Code and Format License. Monotype hereby grants to All a perpetual, worldwide, nonexclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable license under its copyright rights to reproduce, prepare derivative ...
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How do I deal with a MIT project with no included copyright notice?
There's a (possibly abandoned) library I'm using in my project. Its Google Code project page mentions it's MIT licensed. Nowhere in the code itself, nor any of the included files, is there a ...
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Does open sourcing your work help you?
Are developers actually likely to receive significant help by open sourcing a work in its unfinished stages, or are open source consumers more likely to want something ready to use?
This is ...
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What are the licencing requirements for publishing and distributing an ASP.net application
I started developing websites using PHP. I have read many times that PHP is free and open source which is an advantage over ASP.net.
However, due to my current job requirements, I had to switch to ...
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Changing the license in a fork from GPL to GPL compatible? [duplicate]
I have forked a project that was released under the GPL and made substantial modifications, however there are still some parts and general ideas that are the same as upstream.
Due to user interest I ...
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I'm not sure what this license allows me to do
I'm using the BigRational class from bcl.codeplex.com. It will be opensourced when it's finished, and it's modified. However, I don't get legal jargon, so even though it's quite short, could someone ...
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OwnCloud App Licensing
I'm a bit confused about the OwnCloud licensing model. OwnCloud is an AGPL licensed product (at least the open source version is). Does that mean that the only license I can use for an OwnCloud app I ...
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Licensing: source code vs. production code in JavaScript
For commercial and licensing purposes, what is the correct wording for differentiating JavaScript source code (written by the programmer and including comments) from the minified version used in ...
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“Do Whatever You Want” License With Attribution
I'm looking for an open source license that lets people do whatever they want - just like the MIT license - just as long as they attribute the original author, i.e. me.
Does a common license exist ...
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License for free but restricted software sharing
I have built a JavaScript library that I'd like to release for free within my user community. However I want to keep it under control, and not allow my users to pass it on to others without my ...
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GPL License on solution that is partly using fuctionalities of proprietary software [duplicate]
I developed a WordPress plugin that I would like to be open source and GPL compatible. My plugin covers very few functionalities, but now I have an option to use some proprietary software solution to ...
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Is there a chart for helping me decide between open-source licenses?
The Open Source Initiative lists 9 different licenses in their list of "License that are popular and widely used or with strong communities".
I want to license my project as open-source. ...
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How much should I pay to Microsoft when I am selling a desktop software built on VB.NET? [closed]
I am using Microsoft's free tool Visual Basic 2010 Express (downloaded from here ) to develop a desktop application with database features using Microsoft access as the database. Connectivity is being ...
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Can I continue to sell a tool/library I wrote in the past now that I got a full-time job or company will not like it?
I was selling a library/framework/tool to companies. Licensing the binaries. Now I got a full-time-job. Haven't started yet, but will start soon. And I just got a request for quote from a company in ...
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Why isn't the Microsoft Public License compatible with the GPL?
According to this GNU Project page, regarding Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL):
This is a free software license; it has a copyleft that is not strong, but incompatible with the GNU GPL.
They do ...
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How can I select an appropriate licensing/obfuscation system for .NET? [closed]
I saw someone suggesting .NET Reactor once as a good obfuscator. I went to their website to check it out and saw they have a product called IntelliLock which is advertised as a pretty robust ...
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Forking SQLite source
I am interested in modifying the SQLite source code and making it available as an experimental public fork (GitHub, Google Code, etc.)
However, the SQLite source code is currently in the public ...
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If I accept contributions under a CLA, can I write “Copyright (c) My-Name”?
I'm thinking about open sourcing a project of mine. I'd accept contributions under a CLA that grants me a copyright license (I'll explain what I mean at the end of this question). — Now, if someone ...
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How signing out a CLA prevents legal issues in open-source projects?
For example: yeoman. It's licensed under a BSD license. The CLA form (Contributor License Agreement) isn't project specific, and it can be signed electronically.
How and what issues can signing out ...
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Limit number of users in a web app?
I've been asked to look at converting our traditional client-server software into a web-based version (using PHP).
One of the first questions from management was how we'd limit the number of ...
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Buying an MSDN license [closed]
I work as a full time developer (primarily using Visual Studio and VB.NET) with two other developers and three application support technicians. We use Visual Studio 2008 and do not have an MSDN ...
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How to rewrite from scratch a code for which I own the copyright so I can use it on my job without losing the rights to the first version?
Well I don't want to make it open-source! That's the problem. But I do want to use it on my current job. Company did not agree to sign any alternative license with me and told me to rewrite everything ...
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Maintain a web application once the only developer is gone
I have a terminal disease and there is a very high chance that I will no longer be in this world by the end of the year.
I have developed a web application that it is extensively used in my family’s ...
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LGPL open source license
I have recently become curious about open source licenses. I have a question about the LGPL. I created a Java web project and built it as a WAR package. Can I add LGPL jars to this WAR file?
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Open source license with backlink requirement
I'm developing a Javascript library, and I'm thinking about releasing it under an open source license (e.g. GPL, BSD, MIT) — but that requires that websites that use the software link back to my ...
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Should I / can I bundle node.js and mongod together with my application?
I'm working on a web application that runs on node.js and uses MongoDB. It's important to mention that I plan to release the application as commercial software. The way I wrote the installer, it asks ...
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Commercial software license with free upgrade clause
If I am selling software commercially and I offer users free upgrade for 12 months after purchase, can I make them agree to a new licence when they download an upgrade?
What should the original ...
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Can a programmer renounce ownership of source code?
I came across this license:
/**
* The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of
* a legal notice, here is a blessing:
*
* May you do good and not evil.
* May you find ...
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Do I have to include full gpl v2 license information in my commercial project if I use another author's work?
I would like to use another author's work in my commercial project.
That author's work is licensed under GPL v2.
I'm not using full code. I'm using only part of the code. Also I modified it as per ...
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LGPL 2.1 vs LGPL 3.0 Advantages and Disadvantages
From what I've read, LGPL 3.0 allows you to use the license together with other licenses, more permissive about that(Not even sure about that). From ...
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What's more restrictive, the RPL or the AGPL?
What's the difference between the RPL licence and the AGPL licence?
Which one is more restrictive?
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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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Which license should I choose?
I'm working on an engine (I haven't started coding it yet but I like to have everything done as soon as I can, and since I'm unable to start coding it now, I'm working on these small things) and I ...
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How to choose a the correct license for a project?
The applications that I develop on my free time are getting bigger and I'm planning to launch some other projects that I'm currently developing, so I want to know how to choose the correct license for ...
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License question, what happens to a piece of source code when its owner passes away
I am using a piece of free source code in one of my projects. The source code was written in the 1990s and is available from a website that says the code may be modified and distributed freely. The ...
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Can I use MIT license to give some of my previous written code to employer so that I protect myself and don't lose my copyright?
My situation:
I have written a framework before I started my new job. I own the copyright.
It has a bunch of boilerplate logic inside of it, like any piece of software. (duh!)
I don't want to use ...
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BSD licence inheritance template
I want to fork from project under BSD licence. Original licence look like this:
Copyright (c) *year*, *Organization*
All rights reserved.
*Text of licence*
How should look like a license for my ...
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How do I correctly include copyright statements for included libraries?
How do I correctly include copyright statements for included libraries?
I have a program that uses libraries which are licensed under the GPL and MIT (either jointly under both, just only MIT) ...
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Do I have to include the license of a third party library imported as a DLL?
I have code using a third party library, QrCode.Net, in the form of a dll file.
The library is licensed under the MIT License.
Do I have to include the license in my project if I did not use or ...
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Licensing approach for .NET library that might be used desktop / web-service / cloud environment
I am looking for advice how to architect licensing for a .NET library. I am not asking for tool/service recommendations or something like that.
My library can be used in a regular desktop ...
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Apache License and patents
I am trying to understand how Apache License affects patents. In regards to the Apache website http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 section 3, am I right to say for the first part that it is ...
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Software has sub-part Apache v2 license and other sub-part GPL v2 license
Firstly I am sorry I do not fully understand about licensing. Thus I want to ask here for my curiosity about licensing things.
Here is the case. I build a WordPress theme that using underscores.me as ...
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Is it possible to use a “non-commercial” REST API in a for-pay app?
I am interested in integrating the results of 3rd-party news API's into my for-pay application. The APIs would be a very small part of the app (e. g. the app is not just reselling the APIs). I have ...
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Sell code using dynamically linked Open Source GPL code?
I am really confused.
The GPL states that if you start with GPL code, and modify that code, that you must release your code with modifications free of charge also under a GPL.
But what if you simply ...
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Which license for an open source project which may be, but is not intended to be, used as a bot in some apps?
I'm wondering if there is some license which I could put on my website on which I could publish an open-source application that potentially could be used for purposes of cheating in one game for ...
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Microsoft Public License vs MIT?
I'm working with a new plugin (flexbox), and I ran into the MS-PL license, which I had not run into before.
In the past, I've used mainly MIT and Apache licensed projects, so I have no idea what the ...
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Is this modified BSD license compatible with GPL?
I am working on open source project, that uses the source code from FlatAssembler project, which uses following license, based on BSD 2-clause with one additional clause added at the end of the text.
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