Questions tagged [gpl-3]
The General Public License, offered by GNU. Use this tag if the question involves version 3 of the license.
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Are weights of a neural network derivative work of the GPL-3 training framework?
I could not really find a satisfying answer here yet, this question touches it but kind of reversed.
For example the training framework for Yolo v7 is used to train a neural network using the config (...
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License a project under the GPLv3, but license a library to communicate with it under the MIT. Is it possible?
I am currently writing a game. Leaving aside all the game development things, I want to create a library implementation for its API, basically so I give some random guy on the internet the ability to ...
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With GPLv3, do I have to bundle the source code with my deliverable or "provide a means" to obtain it?
I am planing to release a software I have written as donationware (free to download, donate if you want to support the development).
However, it is bundling and (dynamically) linking to another ...
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Does software released under GPLv3 require a copyright notice?
If a project using GPL-3.0-or-later doesn't include a copyright notice, does it violate the license? What would the consequences be?
I'm asking because https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#...
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What file(s) (on GitHub) should have the copyright owner's name for GPL3?
Lots of projects on GitHub have a GPL3 License, as it's easily created by their software when you want to add a license and you choose GPL3. However, unlike the MIT license, you don't put your own ...
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Is a project structure covered by that project's license?
I'm starting to work on a new UI application written in C#, so the MVVM pattern invites itself. However, I have little experience working with it and I need to learn a bit more before I can use it. ...
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Why don’t unprivileged user accounts violate the GPLv3?
The GPLv3 says:
Some devices are designed to deny users access to install or run modified versions of the software inside them, although the manufacturer can do so. This is fundamentally incompatible ...
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Is it possible to monetize the hosting of a GPL-v3 licensed app?
If I understood correctly, every derivative of a GPL-v3 licensed software is imbued with the GPL-v3 license.
Does this mean that I have to disclose the code I used for the infrastructure that runs the ...
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How do you legally get data out of a GPL or AGPL program?
After talking to a lot of people, they seem to give the impression that once the data goes into a GPL licensed program, it can only be extracted from that program by GPL licensed software.
I am told ...
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How does using MIT Licensed code in a GPL or AGPL work affect the original licensed work?
In the GPLv3 license, it states:
“Additional permissions” are terms that supplement the terms of this
License by making exceptions from one or more of its conditions.
Additional permissions that are ...
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Can GPL or AGPL talk to non-GPL software (via API, for example)?
Does the GPL or AGPL restrict programs from talking to other programs with other licenses via API? (i.e. transferring data.)
Example scenario:
Person 1 has Software A which has a GPL license.
Person ...
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How to use code licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later in a project licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later?
I'd like to use code from project A that was licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later in project B, which is also going to be licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later. What should the license headers in the source ...
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How to properly give credit to gpl3 code snippet
I have a simple MIT licensed project and need to include a about 10 lines of GPL3 code (some math stuff that needs to be the same). I know that i need to change the license of my project, give credit ...
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Internal Python application and Python packages with multiple licenses
I am developing a tool for internal use in my company using Python and several Python packages.
This tool uses different kinds of Python packages, all of which have one of GNU Public License, Lesser ...
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PyQt5 Commercial License
Suppose I do the following:
I code out a very small python program (like no more than five hundred lines of code): I download relevant packages about PyQt5, opencv, numpy, math and matplotlib at ...
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