Top new questions this week:
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PDFs are inescapable, what surprises me is the lack of open-source tools available for interacting with them via some sort of API. One example which sticks in my mind was when I was using .NET to …
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Let’s say I have 3 repositories on Github that I own. I made Repo #1 open source under the MIT license. Repo #2 is mostly user graphical interface stuff, but I made it private with no license because …
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Many licenses seem to say you can do whatever you want but must include the source with the binary (or credit if you’re using MIT) There’s two cases that come to mind. Firmware/software on hardware. …
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Someone on GitHub forked my OSS under a GPLv3 license and deployed it on Vercel to disguise it as their portfolio without making any changes of the source code. (They embedded the service on their …
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Suppose I sell a robot, which contains Raspberry PI. Or somebody sells a workstation, which contains a PC and Monitor and WiFi router, each running Linux inside. Or a car workshop sells cars with …
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I found an implementation of the RIPEMD160 algorithm on GitHub, which I followed when writing my own implementation. Hence, I personally would consider my work to be a modification/derivative of this …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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I often use the MIT license for my projects. But recently I’ve had the thought that I really would like to be notified if someone forked my software, whether it’s for personal use, released or not I …
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Why are there issues with public domain in Europe, that forces public domain projects to use CC0, 0BSD, Unlicense or other similar licenses? I.E. why is it that, when someone dedicates a work to the …
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I would like to publish code for an application under an open source license like BSD, MIT, or Apache 2 which allows for changes and derivative works to be contributed back to the open source project …
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Users on the GitHub website are able to “star” other people’s repositories, thereby saving them in their list of Starred Repos. Some people use “stars” to indicate that they like a project, other …
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Say I’m the only one uploading code to someone’s private repository, do they own the copyright to the code? Or do I own the copyright to the code since I wrote it? Would adding a license stating …
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While I’m searching for a new project to start contributing to, I often check the daily email I get from GitHub that lists the most popular repositories of the day and also the repositories starred by …
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There’s a package on Github that was released fully without any license and it stayed this way for close to a year. Then just recently after no updates since the initial commit, a License was added. …
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