Questions tagged [licensing]
Licensing refers to applying a license to an area of software. Only use this tag if your question concerns the application of a license to an area of interest. If your question concerns a specific license, use the tag that corresponds to your license. For more general questions, use this tag.
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Adding autoconverting clause to AGPL?
I was wondering if there is a straightforward way to have AGPL software autoconvert to a BSD-0 license after some arbitrary time (for example, two years), similar to how the BSL works.
I mostly want a ...
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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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How can I restrict who uses my OpenSource and Free Project [duplicate]
I want to know how can I restrict for example porn services and banking services from using my open-source project. Also if it's possible how can I do it? Should i add these restrictions into README ...
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Using FOSS extensions from Google Web Store outside of Chrome
Is it legal to use a FOSS extension from Google Web Store without registration in ungoogled Chromium or other FOSS browsers?
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Removing the statement "Powered by" under GPLv3
I would like to know, if I can remove the statement "Powered by GrandNode" from the footer, where GrandNode published under the license GPLv3.
Here is the official website: https://grandnode....
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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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My app uses multiple 3rd party libraries. How can I handle their licensing obligations?
Let's say my application is main.py.
And it imports 3 libraries and uses their functions.
Library A is BSD licensed. Library B is MIT lisenced. Library C is Apache 2.0 lisenced.
Which license files do ...
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Licensing of transitive packages [duplicate]
I have created an C# appliaction, now and want to distribute it. My application uses some Nuget-packages where each package again references some other packages (transitive packages).
As far as i ...
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Is it possible to use library as private confidential in GPL 3.0 Project
I have a project (for context it's Android) that is GPL 3.0 License and wants to append a library as a private non-license or MIT Personal License.
Is it possible to achieve that without violating the ...
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How to use licensed sample code
Specifically interested in architecture-samples and architecture-templates. Seems like they're fairly stripped down stuff, whose express purpose is to be reused, started from, modified etc. Likely ...
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License choice for a multi-platform C application
I'm trying to understand how OS licensing works for C applications. I developed an application which makes use of the following header files:
errno.h
getopt.h
inttypes.h
signal.h
stdbool.h
stddef.h
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RHEL9 - Can I use RHEL 9 with just the GPL license or do I need to get a subscription
Could someone clarify the licensing requirements for RHEL9? Can I use RHEL 9 with just the GPL license or do I need to get a subscription?
I'm using the ISO and some packages from the EPEL repository....
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AGPLv3 license notice adding to each file
So I have added code licensed under AGPLv3 license to my own project. Licensed my own project under AGPLv3 and noticed that there are no code file with license notice included only AGPLv3 license file....
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Question about AGPLv3. How to state that I modified source code?
So here is what I want to know.
As one Project's code I added to my own uses AGPLv3 license i licensed my own Project as AGPLv3 but there is such a step as "Conveying Modified Source Versions&...
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Where to provide a link to the repository in the distributed software?
I have a hosted OS project that uses the MIT license attributed to my user name. I also provide packaged releases of the software for convenience (so users don't need to build and package locally). ...
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