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Can I use new BSD licensed library/code in commercial closed source project?
Yes. You can use BSD-licensed projects in closed-source, commercial projects. You must include the original copyright and license.
From WikiPedia's BSD License page:
The BSD License allows ...
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How to sell an application? Licensing problems
TL;DR Use an app store. They do all the hard stuff for you. All you'll need is a simple website to point to your app in the store.
You have many questions here, and may issues to resolve...
Do I ...
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How to sell an application? Licensing problems
It has probably never been easier to sell this kind of software, due to the emergence of online app stores for Mobile phones and now Windows.
If you compile your app as a windows store app,
sign up ...
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What prevents others from commerciallly redistributing open source software as-is?
For example, if I wrote an open source Android game under the MIT license and some studio decides to put the game on the Play Store, without modification or my permission, and manage to sell thousands ...
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what kind of certificate needed for my application ?
I think Code Signing Certificate is an ideal option to protect your application. Code Signing Certificates help create a sense of online confidence when users download your software by verifying the ...
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How to sell an application? Licensing problems
In 2015 there is no need in making such system by yourselves. Every major platform has its own application market.
Desktop:
On Windows: Microsoft Store
On OS X: Mac App Store
On Ubuntu: Ubuntu ...
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Including GPL software in closed-code project
If you are merely distributing the executable output of the Fortran compiler, and not the compiler itself, then you're not distributing the compiler, and therefore not triggering the GPL's copyleft ...
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Can we use a GPL 2 product for the commercial purpose?
Yes, GPLv2 code can be used in the manner you describe. That in fact is one of the motivations for the AGPL and GPLv3. The modified code must, of course, never be given to anyone outside the ...
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Commercial use of content licensed under "Creative Commons License Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0"?
Yes, you can use content released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license in a commercial application. According to the legal code and the human-readable summary, ...
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Can I use aac in an commercial app for free?
(This answer is not legal advice. You should speak to an experienced patent attorney.)
What to do about AAC
If I needed to encode or decode AAC, I would rely on operating system APIs where the OS or ...
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Can we use a GPL 2 product for the commercial purpose?
Read the GPL 2 license carefully, and be prepared to share the code along with all your changes with others.
If you hand over the software to anybody outside your company without giving them the ...
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Can we use a GPL 2 product for the commercial purpose?
Since you are not distributing the software to anyone outside your organization, there is no requirement to make the source code for your changes available. The applies for GPLv1, GPLv2 and GPLv3.
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Gnuplot in commercial online/offline applications
The key is that the gnuplot software is not part of your software.
I want to distribute the binary along with my software
Yes, exactly. You will be distributing your own commercial software, and ...
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AGPL 3.0 where staging & production has to be purchased possible?
It's possible with dual licensing. RavenDB (and others) have a similar model where their main OSS project is AGPL, but dev does not require a license, and commercial customers pay for a commercial ...
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Including GPL software in closed-code project
Though Robert gave you a very good answer, IMHO he missed one point: if you do not want to open the source of your program, you simply must avoid to distribute the Fortran compiler together with your ...
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How to sell an application? Licensing problems
There will be many answers along the lines of "use someone's AppStore that handles all the nasty credit cards and taxation issues". This will elide over the "and sign about sixty pages of rapidly ...
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Using JDK in Google Android Studio License Issues
The existing answers here aren't entirely true.
The Oracle Java SE license agreement contains the following term:
The use of Software in systems and solutions that provide dedicated functionality (...
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Using JDK in Google Android Studio License Issues
No, Oracle's JDK is free of use. Android is based on Java Programming language. That's why you need to install Java, so that your app can be compiled and run successfully.
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Is it okay to use a short EULA?
No. It is not okay to use a short EULA. The justice system is adversarial and your adversary is human. If you can make your adversary weary, confused, and doubtful then you must. You are not writing ...
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