Top new questions this week:
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I am very confused by this license. Processed Format Modification, duplication, and (re)distribution of the Services in binary or published format (“Processed Format”) for any purposes and/…
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the brief I want to do “open source” project. In my mind, I would like to : that the code has always the same license even if it is redistributed or sold etc… that the authors and …
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I’m making a software project that I will make as a proprietary software, which I will make a business model by providing service support to recipients or customers. In making target software, apart …
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I’m aware MIT license is permissive, I would still like to ask/verify how to proceed with forking code from .NET runtime libraries. Reason to fork: in my specific case, code I’m interested in is …
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If I use peace of code from some other repo which is under MIT licence I can directly use/Show their own Copyright info in my repo. That part is OK. But what happened if I get several pieces of code …
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The terms and conditions for copying, distribution and modification of the WTFPL 2 are quite terse and to the point: You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO. However, I’m unsure whether they are also …
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Greatest hits from previous weeks:
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I recently opened the source code for the widely-used TeX typesetting system, and was surprised by the restrictive license I found: This program is copyright (C) 1982 by D. E. Knuth; all rights are …
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I have a very vague impression regarding the GPLv2 license that any project which borrows code from a GPL project needs to be open source too. Now I have a situation that I read part of a GPL project’…
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In some cases I have noticed that some people say GNU/Linux instead of just Linux. Why is that so? Do both terms mean the same or is there a subtle difference?
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So I used a piece of software which claims to be open source and is licensed under “GPL for research purposes only”. As far as I know, GPL 2 and 3 are not themselves free, in sense that you can’t …
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At work, we use a version of GCC provided by a vendor of a proprietary OS. The vendor has modified gcc so that it will only run if it successfully acquires one of a limited number of licenses we’ve …
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I’d like to make my project open-source. Is there a free/open-source license that lets me do that, but disallows anyone receiving my project to use it for commercial purposes or monetary gain? In a …
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I’m confused as to what this license really means. Say I have a large piece of software I plan on selling and keeping closed source. It makes use of several small resources that are under the MIT …
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