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Questions about the implementation of software licenses on software. General questions about open source software licenses should be asked at opensource.stackexchange.com instead. Legal questions about software licenses should be asked at law.stackexchange.com instead.
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Program license : Open-Source and commercial?
If you want to control how companies may redistribute your program (or modified forms of it), then you're on much firmer footing -- dual licensing will serve you well. … The GPL might be a perfectly suitable free license option, alongside your own proprietary licensing option: companies who opt for the GPL license could only redistribute your softwre under the GPL. …
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Revokable BSD - What are the implications?
I'm not a lawyer; this answer comes out of my (US-centric) understanding of basic licensing and copyright fundamentals. … This point is heavily muddied, however, by software licensing. …
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License: free to use but not free to modify or redistribute
However, people not familiar with software licensing might find that wording unfamiliar, so it would be best to accompany it with an explicit description that your software is available "free of charge …
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Is copyrights notice of a BSD licensed library considered as endorsement?
In general, you do not need to get permission to include a copyright notice when redistributing a piece of BSD-licensed software. Indeed, if it were necessary, then you could not satisfy the license's …
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Reusing open-source code that doesn’t specify a license
Since it is in github and is publicly available, can I use the code in my module...
NO.
...or should I get the author's written permission?
YES.
In all 166 nations that are signatories to …
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Do legal names matter with source code licensing in the USA?
In this answer, I assume that someone has contributed code under a pseudonym (or under no name at all) and has not signed a contributor license agreement. Without delving too deeply into legal specifi …
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Can I use GPL code as textual data in my app?
(Note: I'm not a lawyer.)
From the Free Software Foundation's GPL FAQ:
If a programming language interpreter has a license that is incompatible with the GPL, can I run GPL-covered programs on it?
Whe …
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Is renewal of MIT license needed on github at the beginning of each year?
That year in your code is part of a copyright notice. It indicates the effective creation date of your software, which affects the time window of your copyright. It is not, strictly speaking, related …
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Can I commerically use GPL licensed software on my server if I am only distributing the clie...
This is not a clear-cut issue. Consider two extreme ends of the spectrum:
Your proprietary client software is an HTTP client and it renders HTML responses. It can work with any HTTP server. The HTTP …
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Does any well-known license require to make modifications available when only derived *outpu...
I'm no lawyer, but this seems quite difficult. Let's begin at the GPL FAQ on program output. The particular question is not exactly what you ask in your question, but the answer is perfectly relevant: …
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w3c library license: does it prevent the inclusion in/distribution with paid software?
According to the FSF's page Various Licenses and Comments about Them:
W3C Software Notice and License
This is a free software license and is GPL compatible.
Futhermore, the W3C license is OSI approv …
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How do I deal with a MIT project with no included copyright notice?
The best thing to do is contact the original author and request that he or she update the repository to include a proper license file and copyright notice, along with license headers and copyright not …
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License that grants the initial author all rights of derived/modified work?
As others have said, a copyright-assignment contributor agreement is closest to what you want. However, a contributor agreement only covers individuals who opt into it; there is nothing to stop someon …
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Does using Creative Commons No-Derivatives license conflict with GitHub terms?
Generally, the term "forking" means taking some codebase and making a modified version of it. However, Github uses the term "forking" to mean "use of Github's fork feature", which simply creates an un …
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Can you claim that your product is fit for purpose when it uses OSS software which does not ...
First of all, as others have said, there's a difference between software actually working versus software being sold with a legal guarantee that it works.
The disclaimer text you cite means that the …
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