Questions tagged [license]
This tag is used for concerns about licenses to software and what rights one grants.
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How can I properly bundle open source licenses?
I have made an open source app that is licensed under GNU GPL V3.0. I have dependencies that use the MIT, Apache 2.0 and CC-0 licenses. How can I properly include the license info in my app? Is it ...
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Different and conflicting licenses in one repository
Let me ask you directly using an example: there is a repository LINK that has a top-level LICENSE file with the Apache license.
However, in the source files there is this note:
This Page can only be ...
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Splitting LGPL License into certain folders/files
So my project tree is
Root:
Client
Java
Server
C
LICENCE
README.md
and I licensed it under LGPL v2.1, so my question is, Is it possible to put the LICENCE inside Server/C and inside Client/Java (...
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What is the default license of a project build on top of SpringBoot?
I am from a small private for-profit company, let us call it CompanyA for this example.
We are using a popular java framework called SpringBoot to build our software on top of it.
The license of ...
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What is the correct license of Computer Modern fonts and its derived works?
I wonder the licenses of Computer Modern fonts and its derived works. Wikipedia says Computer Modern is under the SIL Open Font License but the CTAN's Computer Modern page says under the Knuth License....
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Does Licensing open-source prevent me from selling the product?
In the last question I asked, I found out that open-source licenses are always letting people use your code/product commercially. This means that they can technically sell the product.
Does this mean ...
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What is a Modification in MPL 2.0
In the case of a Software Project under Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0.
Given that I want to extend the Covered Software through a bigger Project.
The following is an example where File A is ...
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Accessing source code of an original work open source licensed
In open source licenses, there are different requirements regarding the original work and the derivative one.
While I understand that for some permissive licenses, there is not a requirement to ...
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What is a Modification in GPL 2.0
Given that I want to extend the Covered Software through a bigger Project.
The following is an example where File A is part of the Covered Software and any subsequent files are not part of the ...
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License header for code licensed as GPL 3 only
The text of the GNU GPL 3 license ends with a section titled "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs", which states that you should include a license notice within each source file, ...
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Licensing my project derived from MIT and AGPL-3 licensed projects
So I wish to take some lead in development of my app based on projects that were not active for 4 and 2 years. One of them is MIT licensed and other has AGPL-3 license. If I were to add my own code ...
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When does (A)GPL license come into effect when loading a shared GPL-licensed library and how long does the effect last?
I've a very specific question.
I was reading: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLPlugins
And wondered about the following.
My main program uses a permissive license that is compatible with ...
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Google's ML Kit
Hi I want to use google's ML Kit for my SDK offering to my customer. Is it open source? I don't find any license attached to it. Also it is like a black box that goes along with our offerings and uses ...
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Is it legal to distribute GPL software compiled with a nonfree compiler?
Suppose there is a GPL program.
Say I used a closed source "compiler" to build it.
In building so, I pulled in a proprietary library, but I considered it part of my compiler.
Because the ...
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Correct license for dataset if source data has different licenses
I want to create a new dataset which I want to publish on e.g. Hugging Face. I plan to have multiple versions with different licenses, depending on which data I used.
I now wondered whether I can ...
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