Top new questions this week:
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Suppose I’m writing a certain program, which I wish to license under strong copyleft license such as GPLv3. At the moment I have not used any 3rd party GPL code (I think there might be an LGPL library …
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I was very curious about the way this project was published, under an NPL license. From what I understand, this license is similar to the GPL v3.0, except that it adds an additional restriction: “…
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In Brazil Elections, they developed a modified Linux version called “UENUX” to run 570 thousand electronic vote machines, where the people go to Vote on those machines. Since they really …
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The Apache License v2.0 is incompatible with GPLv2. Instead of dual-licensing or using the LLVM Exceptions, I am thinking of defining an exception to the Apache license that is similar to what is …
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We plan to use clinical trial articles in one of the text annotation projects. This article mentions the license below. This is an open-access article under the terms of the Creative Commons …
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I have an question about my understanding of Linking Proprietary software to LGPL libraries. Based on my understanding, one can link his/her software to LGPL lib via: Statically: Proprietary & …
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Context: We want to create a repo inside our work’s Github organization for a small OSS project. This will be done using my work email (not personal). I’m also not the organization creator. Question: …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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FOSS stands for “Free and Open Source Software”, whereas FLOSS stands for “Free/Libre/Open Source Software”. The use of libre denotes the idea that the software is “free as in free speech, not free …
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I know that for many years, C# was proprietary, and it’s always been focused on Windows. Then I started hearing about Microsoft releasing component after component of the language’s framework as open-…
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Suppose I have a Python library which is distributed under the GPL license. I would like to use that library in my program, that I may eventually want to distribute under non-GPL terms. The library …
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Everybody knows that you shouldn’t use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don’t know or understand is why. I can’t seem to find any …
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The GitHub FAQ states (emphasis mine): You’re under no obligation to choose a license. It’s your right not to include one with your code or project, but please be aware of the implications. …
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Let’s say i used a MIT program as a base for a new project, and modified about 50% of the program files. How should i specify that the program is a derivative work? Do i need to keep track of every …
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I would like to include a pod that I found on cocoa pods and its an animation of a button. It is licensed under MIT licence: cocoapods.org/pods/DynamicButton In the licence it states: …
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