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Altering author names in MIT license
Yes, this is covered by the MIT license and you should contact the author of the derivative work to correct the copyright notice.
More precisely, with MIT license, you allow everyone:
to use, ...
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Can you change code distributed under the MIT license, and re-distribute it under the GPL license?
Nothing to add to the explanations in the answers already given, but here are instructions for how to shape your source file headers (source):
2.2 Adding GPL’d modifications to permissive-licensed ...
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How to include licenses for third-party Maven dependencies?
Using the Maven License Plugin, you can generate a text file with all the licenses (license:add-third-party). This file can then be included as a resource into your project or your bundled zip.
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If you manage a BSD-licensed open source project, how do you guard against someone illegally contributing GPL-licensed code?
One does not simply "guard against" illegal contributions.
You never accept blindly a contribution, and should have a process to vet contributions (including yours) for several kinds of ...
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With source code lost, can the binary be released as MIT without it?
In every jurisdiction I know, the author or copyright holder of a software can pick whatever license they like, source code available or not. And nowhere in the MIT license does the term "source code" ...
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How is the MIT licence not viral and how to practically comply with it?
How is the MIT licence not viral?
Because using code licensed by the MIT License does not require your whole application to be released under the MIT License. Period. In other words, the code that ...
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Do I have to release my code under MIT license
No. MIT is not a viral license, like the GPL. Using GPL'd code requires you to release your code under GPL.
Yes. MIT doesn't have any commercial restrictions.
N/A.
You should read the license; it'...
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Understanding application licenses when using third party libraries in an android project
It's kind-of ironic that your question is about how to handle the license of a library that generates About pages for apps, because the most common practice for what to do with such licenses is to ...
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How do I properly credit authors of software released under the MIT license?
I am not a layer, but here is what I proposed and was validated in my jurisdiction:
Include ALL license files from any included MIT code, be it forked, copied as-is, etc.
If the license files are ...
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How to prove a certain app uses my library?
First, the default MIT License (based on your tags) does not include an attribution clause (ref). If you have that, then you've changed the base MIT license. Second, the MIT license is a bit vague ...
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Exclude files from open source license?
You have several options:
1) The most robust solution is to explicitly state the copyright license in every file. It can be a single line at the top:
// Copyright (c) 2016 Your Name. Licensed under ...
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MIT, BSD, Apache License: Create application for client
IANAL, but as far as I have seen it in open source projects, a "LICENSES.txt" or "LICENSES.md" is the most common way to do it. In which you group your dependencies based on their licenses (e.g., ...
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Licensing: Boost library distributed with my MIT-licensed code
1.Can I freely redistribute BOOST binaries in my GitHub repository?
Yes, you can. The Boost software license reads (emphasis mine):
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or ...
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Can I put all license files for different open source projects I use in my application in one folder?
All the usual disclaimers apply, but as long as you don't deliberately obfuscate or hide the licenses you should be in the clear.
According to my experience the most common practice is putting all ...
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Friendly fork of contributions from library X to library Y with a different but similar license
First off many Open Source libraries & frameworks contain components that are licenced under different, compatible, licences - some actually contain components under incompatible licences.
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How to correctly credit the authors of an MIT licensed library in this case?
Neglecting to put their MIT license into the source files is a mistake on the part of the original authors. In your copy of the files, you can just add this for them.
In your top-level LICENSE file, ...
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Upload MIT-licensed code to maven repository
From the MIT license itself (relevant parts bolded):
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software")...
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Modifying an Apache 2 licensed file and add MIT license to it
Perhaps this question might be worth a read. This might get tricky, especially if you are not the original author, or if you are indeed the original author but other people contributed non-trivial ...
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How is the MIT licence not viral and how to practically comply with it?
First of all, the MIT license is called permissive because it has very few requirements that must be fulfilled to satisfy the license when creating a derived work. In fact, the only requirement is ...
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How to handle modification on MIT Licenced project
The answer is right there in the license. You can do pretty much whatever you want, as long as you preserve the Copyright notice (the line(s) starting with Copyright) and the Permission notice (...
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Can you license a fork of a public domain library?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer.
You won't find an absolute answer to this question anywhere, but the general consensus seems to be, "Yes, with attribution, depending on your jurisdiction."
The CC0 is ...
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Confusion about dual license (MIT/GPL) javascript for use on my website
I know this is an old question, but I want to answer the third part of the question more emphatically:
My partner thinks I should remove the copyright altogether and change the variable names, as ...
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