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Main points of difference between the MIT license and the GNU General public license [closed]
I am currently researching about the MIT license and the GNU General public license
Can anyone give me the main points of difference between the two?
Thanks guys.
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What “sublicense” actually means?
First, it is clear that the right to sublicense doesn't give you the right to relicense.
Let's say we have a library with MIT license(1 file), someone adds some features to the library but puts them ...
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SICP - Why use accumulate with cons when filter already passes back a list
In SICP 2nd Edition section 2.2.3,
the authors have the following code:
(define (even-fibs n)
(accumulate cons
nil
(filter even?
(map fib
...
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Can I distribute a software with the following permission notice
I've recently written a piece of software (without any other contributors) for a company which I part own. I was wondering if I could distribute it with the following permission notice, which is a ...
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Changes in licence in forked project what are my rights?
Hi I'm intrested in using the apparently now defunct app-mdi libray in a flex application for a paying customer. http://sourceforge.net/projects/appmdi/
It appears that the app-mdi project has been ...
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Is it OK to learn an algorithm from an open source project, and then implement it in a closed source project?
Reference The post that started it all
In order to clear up the original question I asked in a provocative manner, I have posed this question.
If you learn an algorithm from an open source project, ...
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Searching for a license compatible with BSD, LGPL, and either MIT or GPL version 2, for commercial open source app
I'm writing a web app which I want to use commercially (i.e. I want to charge people to use it), but I'm happy to make the code available for others to fork. The app includes the following:
Django: ...
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Sharing code in LGPL and proprietary software
I'm working on a piece of software that'll be released as a dll under LGPL. The software interfaces with hardware from a small company that has provided me with the needed libraries and some code to ...
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Choosing a licence for open source projects
I've done some open source projects, and I plan to do more in the future. So far, I've released all my code under GPL, but I've read a few articles which claim GPL is too restrictive for any code to ...
