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So, I made a program with Pygame and PySimpleGui, both licensed under LGPL. I didn´t modified them, just imported and used them on my code. Well, I heard somewhere that GPL 2 is not compatible with …
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I’m currently involved in a project to produce a tool for carrying out certain types of standardised performance assesments on a specific type of industrial plant, that will soon be going open source. …
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There are a number of licenses that contain the term “binary distribution”. For example, github.com/boostorg/beast/blob/develop/LICENSE_1_0.txt: A simple permissive license only …
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The GPL3 defines correspond source as the following: The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run …
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We use hub.docker.com/_/node to build our apps in our private organisation. Due to rate limit of free usage, we are getting “Too many requests” error while pulling images from docker-…
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There is a github repository licensed under the MIT license. Can I download just 1 bash script and use it (execute) without copying the license file somewhere? The script itself doesn’t provide any …
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Suppose I have a video game, and the player can interact with a computer in the game to find a file. Suppose the player can view the contents of a file in the video game, but otherwise the computer is …
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A lot of our projects are CC0 licensed and I had been researching across the web to find any information regarding the legalities of this, and to retain the original author’s moral rights. I have not …
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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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A few months ago, MongoDB introduced a new license called SSPL following some conflicts with AWS. Later they presented this license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval for it to be called …
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In some documents or blogs about development in open source projects, you can read stuff like ‘upstream developer’ or ‘upstream fix’. What does that mean?
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Let’s say a company modifies a GPLv3 software. All it’s employees can use the modified software and have access to the modified source code. The company’s employees don’t have the right to distribute …
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This is a hypothetical question, but I am curious. Feel free to ignore it, when it seems too theoretical for you. Some people may know the situation that you implement a feature and in the end you …
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If a project is licensed under GPL-2.0-or-later/MPL1.*, to what extent could the FSF/Mozilla releases a new version that imposes obligations or removes protections for licensors? Some examples: Could …
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I wonder if i could, for example, distribute a commercial, closed source module for the Qt framework, that is licensed under LGPL. Does LGPL allow closed source third party modules that may make use …
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