Questions tagged [mit-license]
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How to correctly credit the authors of an MIT licensed library in this case?
I'm using some modified MIT licensed code directly in my project and am concerned about how to correctly attribute it.
The code in question does not have license text in each file, only a single ...
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Altering author names in MIT license [closed]
Some years ago I wrote and released some software under the MIT license.
Recently I noticed that one (or some?) of the forks have altered the leading copyright notice at the top of the license, i.e.
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With source code lost, can the binary be released as MIT without it? [closed]
I preserve old software by asking copyright owners (often one author) to release the source code under an Open Source License, GPL or MIT. In many cases the source is gone, but the binaries still ...
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Upload MIT-licensed code to maven repository [closed]
I found some java source code under MIT license on Github, but it is not included in any maven repository. I asked in issue to publish it somewhere, but nobody answered and looks like this repo is not ...
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If you manage a BSD-licensed open source project, how do you guard against someone illegally contributing GPL-licensed code?
An open source project licensed under BSD, MIT or another permissive license accepts code contributions from the community.
How can I prevent someone from taking GPL-licensed code that they don't own ...
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Understanding application licenses when using third party libraries in an android project
I'm developing an app for the 2nd time but it's the first time i'm using third party libraries in my application. One of the libraries seems to have an MIT license and the other is the android ...
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Forking Github repo (MIT): what references to original author should remain intact? [closed]
I'll pick one of the most popular react boilerplates as an example here.
Assume, i've forked it (commits history till fork date remains intact).
According to the text of MIT license, the only thing ...
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Licensing: Boost library distributed with my MIT-licensed code [closed]
I want to release some C++ code under MIT license in GitHub. I would like to include required BOOST libraries in the repository. No commercial use is currently foreseen. I am pretty new to IP issues, ...
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Can I put all license files for different open source projects I use in my application in one folder? [closed]
I am developing a project that uses the Electron framework which is released under the MIT license, but my question is not necessarily restricted to this one case: If an open source project comes with ...
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Friendly fork of contributions from library X to library Y with a different but similar license
If there's a large contribution to a library X licensed under Apache v2.0 from user A and user A decides to create a "friendly" fork of the contributions he/she made in library X to a new library Y ...
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How to prove a certain app uses my library? [closed]
I am the author of an iOS framework and I know for sure that an app uses it, but the app's author is not attributing it.
How can I prove this in a way that also a judge would accept it?
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Do I have to release my code under MIT license
I've written some python code that is using a module which is distributed under an MIT license. Three questions.
Do I have to release my code as open source?
Can I distribute my code commercially?
If ...
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Modifying an Apache 2 licensed file and add MIT license to it [closed]
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I'd like to add a (modification) copyright and a MIT License to an Apache 2 licensed file, which I modified.
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I modified a file that was licensed Apache 2. According to what I ...
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How is the MIT licence not viral and how to practically comply with it?
I've read online that MIT is a permissive licence which allows for the code to be used in propriety products, but the licence texts seems to conflict with that, which I'll quote below:
Copyright (c) &...
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MIT, BSD, Apache License: Create application for client
I create Application for my client. I use some libraries released on GitHub under MIT, BSD and Apache license. I create also documentation (PDF file) where I would like to point what libraries and ...
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