Questions tagged [publishing]
For questions about the process of publishing free/open projects, involving decisions such as whether to provide binary builds or which packaging system to use
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Does private GPL open source exist? if so, how does it work if mixed with public GPL?
Does private GPL open source exist? If so, how it works if mixed with public GPL?
I read that a company may sell a binary under the GPL, and only people who bought it can have access to the GPL ...
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License R code when using R packages with different license types
I am navigating licensing, and this is very confusing.
I produced a lot of R code to analyze data for a research article that will be published on a peer-reviewed journal.
Reading here License for R ...
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Can CC-BY-SA code be removed from a larger code base and not have the remaining code bear the CC-BY-SA license?
My understanding of the CC-BY-SA is that if you use a snippet of CC-BY-SA code in a larger project, not only must you reveal the source code of your entire project, but you must also brand the entire ...
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Is it legal to publish a book on about coding Python or Java on Amazon Kindle publishing?
I'm tossing around the idea of writing and publishing a book on the Amazon Kindle platform about Java or Python. The name of the book would be something like "Basic and Simple Programming with ...
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Does this constitute a breach in GPL license? Article with GPL licensed software and Journal reviewer guidelines
Here is the scenario:
As a researcher you are making a modification to some GPL3-licensed software, and thus if you were to distribute the code, you would need to do this using the GPL (or a ...
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Can the author of an MIT licenced project prevent me from publishing to an App Store
I took an open source project that is published under the MIT License and I want to re-release it on an App Store. (After I updated the SDK and switched from JavaScript to TypeScript).
But now the ...
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Is the PDF output of LaTeX code licensed under GPLv3 also covered?
I have seen the similar question here Does "the GPL doesn't cover the ouput of a program" also apply if...... However, I think the use of LaTex to write a book with code examples that were ...
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How to publish a software for use with a disrespected website?
I am part of a community website, which is seen as disrespected by many people who do not know much about the community. People in the community hide their real identities by using pseudonyms and not ...
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'Adding' a license to a source-code
How to add a license to a source-code?
For example, I have written a piece of code that is very efficient and has many commercial applications. I have published the code on my website, and I want to ...
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Publish a heavily modified version of forked NPM package
I have forked and modified a legacy open-source NPM package for my personal use. And I thought publishing my modification might be useful for others.
The "heavily modified" in my case is:
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Study existing GPLv3 licensed code while working on my own project
I plan to write a toy interpreter for a programming language as a hobby project hosted on GitHub. The official implementation of the language is licensed under GPLv3. I have read some of its code to ...
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How to publish paper and project inspired by Open Source Projects
This is about my final project for my grade.
I did a project. I looked at similar open source projects and got influenced by them. I didn't copy them, but i definitely got influenced and some parts ...
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Can I publish a GPL source I'm being paid for to develop?
For a popular program licensed under GPL3, a system of plugins exists. The program and the plugins are closely interoperable and exchange large structures of data, so the plugins will necessarily be ...
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Using reverse-engineered closed protocol in open source software
The question is a partial derivative of this one: Someone open-sourced an un-open-source project
Here is the situation:
There is a device and a proprietary software to manage that device. They are ...
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Does GPL require me to publish the source code INCLUDING configuration files needed to run?
For simplicity lets say i created a Server-Client programm which uses libraries under the GNU license.
My understanding is that i now have to give everyone who asks my full client source-code and ...
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