Questions tagged [mit]
For questions pertaining to the MIT/Expat license or the MIT/X11 license.
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Is Firefox's about:license non-compliant wrt. MIT and BSD style Licenses?
The Firefox (ref: V 127.0.2 on Windows) License Page about:license diligently lists all potential open source licenses involved.
In an attempt to make this mess shorter, the devs have opted to group ...
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Is the NuGet license type 'expression' broken?
NuGet packages, for the purpose of telegraphing the license of a package,
have - or rather should have used to - the field <licenseUrl> that could link to a
license for the package.
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Project consumption under AGPL V3
The title may be wrong. I was looking to clarify some confusions for my PKDSA project on GitHub. There are two licenses that I choose for my project. 90% of the code is actually licensed under AGPL V3 ...
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Best practices for relicensing what was once a derivative work
I forked a project which had the MIT license. I made substantial changes to it, rewriting it in a different language (from C++ to C) and now only a few small vestiges of the original are left in the ...
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Does using BSD 3 or MIT licensed code in my commercial code/application allow reverse engineering of my closed source code/application?
I write commercial code and sometimes use MIT or BSD 3 licensed code I find on github for instance.
Recently somebody told me I need to be careful as some of these 'open source' licenses, like LGPL ...
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Using open source licenses while not disclosing internal architecture
I am close to release of a webapp, and I am currently preparing the cookie policy, privacy agreement...etc. I want to legally cover my bases, and follow the licenses of dependencies, however, I have ...
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Can I legally use content from a CC-BY-SA-licensed wiki in an MIT-licensed video game?
Specifically, I'm talking about the Backrooms Fandom Wiki. Most if not all of the textual content (creative writing) on it is licensed under CC-BY-SA. However, if I want to make a video game based on ...
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Porting portions of code under MPL-2.0 to another project and language under MIT
I'm seeking some advice regarding the following situation.
I want to port portions of code from a C++ source file, more specifically two methods that implement an algorithm I'm interested in for my PL/...
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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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Can the non-distributing end user of a software violate the MIT or GPL license?
Company A wants to buy software from company B for in-house use - that is, it will only be installed on machines of company A.
Said commercial software package contains code and utilities licensed ...
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Can I use GPL 3.0 license project as library to my private project with MIT license
I'm working on a private project and considering integrating a library that is licensed under the GPL 3.0 (GNU General Public License version 3.0). However, my project itself is licensed under the MIT ...
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Is creating a React UI library with a CSS re-implementation of a GNU LGPLv2.1 licensed C implementation a violation of the GPL?
I'm currently in the process of developing a new React UI library, drawing inspiration from the Adwaita design system. There is a C language implementation of a library called libadwaita. However, ...
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Problems with the MIT license - does this fix it?
It is generally accepted that 'the software' in the MIT license refers to 'the source code', but unfortunately not generally enough. Also, for interpreted languages (such as Javascript) 'substantial ...
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Do I need permissions to list companies using my library?
I'm maintaining an open-source library, which uses the MIT license. From contributions on GitHub and other discussions, I know of a few companies that use (or at least used) my library.
The MIT ...
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When updating a package version, what should the license year be?
When creating a new R package version under an existing MIT licence, should the year be [creation_year], [current_year] or [creation_year - current_year]?
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