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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Handling client integrity for closed/opensource mixed project
Let's say I have a project in which I use modified LGPL libraries that is used by my own code. As far as I understand it, I am obligated to publish the changes I made to the LGPL libraries, and I am ...
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looking for a copyleft license that allows myself to `#include` my library in proprietary closed-source applications but not others unless granted [duplicate]
I’m looking for a copyleft license or CLA for a library I’m developing that meets the following requirements:
The library itself remains fully copyleft (e.g., GPLv3).
Only I, the original author, am ...
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What does it mean, if a C or C++ header with non-trivial code is LGPL licensed?
LGPL has certain requirements for software that uses LGPL libraries. The most common way to satisfy these in otherwise closed-source software is to supply the LGPL library as a dynamic library, which ...
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License for a programming language
I have created a programming language (an interpreter, a dedicated text-editor, reference manual and documentation, including usage examples), and I would like to publish it. I am interested in the ...
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My Own Qt Creator Plugin License(Qt Company GPL Exception 1.0)
I would like to create a plugin for Qt Creator, and I understand the term from Qt Company GPL Exception 1.0(https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/blob/master/LICENSES/LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT)
Exception ...
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Am I allowed to sell usage-licenses to software licensed under a open-source-license? [duplicate]
(I can not imagine this was not asked before, maybe I was just too stupid to find it. For this case I am thankful for a hint/link.)
I have read texts that say you can earn money with that in the ...
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Can I make CC-BY-NC-ND documents searchable?
I know of a website which provides photocopied documents under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
Can I perform OCR on the documents and set up a publicly accessible website where users can search for strings, and ...
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Solving licensing issues made by others by partly breaking my direct dependencies, or not to publish source code at all
There seem to be licensing issues in the dependencies I have used. I am trying to publish some R code, but at least two of the R packages my code uses rely on another R packages with incompatible ...
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How can R and its associate software be distributed (incompatible LGPL 2.1 and Apache 2)
R is distributed mainly under the GPL2 or GPL3, but there are also some header files(?) under the LGPL-2.1. The header files go outside my current comprehension.
https://www.r-project.org/Licenses/
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SPDX: GPL-2.0-or-later vs the `+` operator
Can somebody explain the semantics of SPDX when it comes to GPL licenses?
There is:
GPL-2.0 - deprecated
GPL-2.0-only
GPL-2.0-or-later
I don't understand why "Only GPL 2.0" is not ...
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Does presence of a license in source code strictly apply to that source code?
Many licenses (GPL, BSD, etc) include a stipulation that "redistributions must retain this copyright notice and license" and such. This allows a license to propagate into derivative works.
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Conditions of the MIT License
In the MIT license is:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
Does it mean that each file in the repository of ...
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Can my Software Use a Library Licensed Under EPL 1.0 with no Source Code Available?
I have built a piece of Java software that uses a library. I extracted this library from another software that's distributed in compiled form under Eclipse Public License 1.0. So, I have the library ...
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Licenses: building against a modified library
My code depends on a library licensed under "Apache License v2.0 with LLVM Exceptions". I modify the source code of this dependency before I build my library.
Can I release my code, and the ...
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Can I sue for Copyright Infringement if I contributed some code to the project?
I'm starting to get into writing Free (as in Freedom) software and I want to make sure I do it properly. I prefer to license my work under a copyleft license since I don't want my code to be given to ...
