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QUESTIONS ABOUT LICENSING ARE OFF-TOPIC. You may ask questions about open source licensing on https://opensource.stackexchange.com. This tag is for asking about designing programs that interact with open source software.

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What is considered to be a "modification" of sources under the BSD license?

I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that a modification would be anything that's considered a derivative work under copyright law. This is a grey area where borderline cases may need to be decid …
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Java Licenses, GPL, GNU Questions

With internal libraries, you don't need to distribute them at all. The end user will have their own copy in their JRE. You only distribute code you own so you doesn't have any constraints. If you dis …
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How to avoid being forked into oblivion by a more powerful contributor?

Releasing a project under the MIT license is giving people permission to fork the project. Part of the philosophy behind free software is to give users and developers the right to use, modify, and rel …
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