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Does a company own my company's product if I use their open source code?
Does a company own my company's product if I use their open source code?
I am reading through the SDK License agreement of a company's code and it reads:
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Open source idea closely related to product at work
For a while I have had an idea for an open source project. Now, I've started building something similar at work as an internal tool (so not public). So does that mean I can not go on and do the ...
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When a contractor develops a program based on clients specifications, who owns the rights?
I was hired to create a computer program. The client gave me directions on what it should do and how the UI should look like (complete with pictures). No formal contract was ever made, and I realize ...
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Is taking influence from an Apache licensed software copyright infringment?
This question was first posted on Open Source here.
I'll try to be more specific about what I'm doing:
After using FluentValidation for a few project I wanted to take a try at developing my own ...
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Why is there a year generated in copyright license code?
I just generated a new MIT licensed repository on Github. Part of the license looks like this:
Copyright (c) 2017 superfly-css
What is the purpose of having a year in the copyright line? Is it ...
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Can I accept donations if I use open source software with "no commercial use" clause?
If I use components forbidding commercial use in my website/app (such as copyleft or share alike), can I (3 situations):
Accept donations
Accept donations and give some privileges to donors, such as ...
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Can I use any library I want in a public domain program?
If I install a library on my system (let's say it's called libfoo and it is under the BSD license), then include the header in my program (in the public domain) and link the program to libfoo, is that ...
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Why do you have to accept a licencing agreenment before installing Java but not C++?
There is a license to use Java which you must accept before installing. Why isn't there one for C or C++? If there is, where can it be found? I'm guessing it has to do with how Oracle owns Java, but ...
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Can I inspect websites' source in teaching video?
As a web developer, I find that we can learn a ton about HTML, CSS and JavaScript by opening the Developer Tools in Chromium and inspect elements, seeing the names other developer choose for their CSS ...
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Software licence where no licence is found
Is it correct that I can't take the source code from an educational book and write/use in my website or use it for my own teaching purposes?
Or can such code be considered "generic code" without ...
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How does contributing to a FLOSS project work from a legal perspective?
Some points I know:
Contributors own copyright over their contributions, which means the author (= the owner of the repo and original author) cannot re-license the code (= change the license of the ...
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Does using Java or Mono open me up to the possibility of being sued by Oracle or Microsoft?
Given the recent lawsuit between Google and Oracle due to Oracle's claims of the unfair usage of the Java API's in Android.
I have a large amount of Java and C# code for certain back end processes on ...
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Is it legal to write software to convert data from a proprietary format?
I have created a piece of software that converts a proprietary format from the database blob of a large, well known commercial software company into the equivalent open source data type. The large ...
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What is the Copyright Status of code posted on JSFiddle?
Programmers share code on the site JSFiddle http://jsfiddle.net, the website section called Licence states:
All code posted to the site belongs to the poster and no license is enforced.
jsFiddle are ...
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Ingesting source files from other open source project into mine
I am publishing an open-source code project under the MIT-style license. I have the full notice in the LICENSE file of the source repository.
I want to take a whole file from another open-source ...
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