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I have a project that I started a long time ago and licensed under GPLv3. It uses an implementation of a particular algorithm, where the implementation is licensed under GPLv2. The algorithm is the ...

As the owner of a company that has a Web application, I would like to make that code freely available for people to contribute code to. There are several places where this is a specific application, ...

We (small team in large organisation, in Germany/EU) have the following situation: we use OSS libraries within our commercial products, licenses are checked and we are sure that we're complying (LGPL,...

I plan to build a closed-source software with C++ language using GSL (GNU Scientific Library). This software is made by compiling my source codes into executable. By the way, my source codes use GSL ...

While much discussion is there around software patents (because sometimes it's just maybe a creative idea), how does maker community position themselves to existing patents? In other words, is high ...

The wikipedia page doesn't give much information on the page. It seems to be only generated by garmin devices but there are numerous open source libraries that can process this file format. Are ...

For my case, I have open source projects in Node JS that use the MIT license for which I have only added "MIT" to the license field in the package.json config file. There are no contents of the ...

I have a relatively young private github repo with 5-6 people working on it together. My understanding of a contributor agreement is that I can use this to state that: Users have access to the ...

The WordPress docker files installs many software including WordPress, PHP, some php extensions and it also uses php docker file such as php:5.6-apache which installs many software for it to run. My ...

I used an unfree license, but I made a copy paste mistake, declaring that the licnesed stuff is "free software". Is that legally binding = does it grant the licensee the three fos freedoms? Here the ...

This question was originally asked on StackOverflow but since licensing questions are off topic I move it here. So here comes the original question about this open source library: I want to use the ...

I am developing an app which will encrypt users files , photos etc. I use the open source library RNCryptor to do the operation . Does this make my app require export compliance ? . Does the export ...

In my project, I have copied and used code from two other projects, one of which is licensed under GPLv3 and the other one has an MIT license. Which license should I use for my project?

I am a long time open source (or free software; in this post I consider them nearly equivalent, even if I do know the differences) user and sometimes contributor. I'm a Linux guy (using Debian these ...

I wrote some software (a simple command-line utility) and released the source code under the following zlib-style open source license: Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any ...

I am looking for an opensource software option to display KeyBoard and Mouse actions on screen. For e.g Key-mon for Linux Kindly provide suggestions. Thanks

(Reposted in here because this is the more correct section.) So the situation is this: I run a project which is a fork of an emulator licensed under GPL v2, my fork respects that and has not ...

I'm not sure if this question makes sense here although in my point of view it does. Otherwise I would be happy to post it in the right SO. Scope I would like to rise a few scenarios concerning ...

As I understand, Cheerp is a tool in a similar way it is GCC, licensed with GPLv2. The license applies to the work reached by the copy rights, but not for use restrictions. So, as long as one does ...

I look at a project under MPL 1.1. Can I take the source and re-distribute it under MPL 2.0 without any modification or contribution? That is, I am not a contributor (not the initial, not in the past, ...

I need to enable SSL for Rocket.Chat. Here I found that I can do it with Caddy. I have never used Caddy before. Personal license here says Caddy is free only for non-commercial use. And Caddy has open ...

My question might be naive but wanted to clarify this anyway. We see software being published as open source. Take for example Signal. We can audit the software since its public. But how do we verify ...

MIT License says: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. However, a few repositories do not have any ...

I'm writing a database library in Java which is licensed under the GPLv3, and I want to include the MySQL JDBC driver in it, which is licensed under the GPLv2. Are there any restrictions stopping me ...

I have a question regarding licensing of mblock based products. The mBlock 5 is a software tool for STEAM education. It is inspired by Scratch 3.0 and supports graphical and text programming. Also, ...

If it is true that GPL exceptions can be made to apply to some individuals and not others, could the author of an open source program avoid the hassle of asking contributors to sign a Contributor ...

My open source project is now in the stage "it remains to debug to make the first practical release" (almost). To get money, at which stage should I ask for donations: now or after debugging? You ...

I want to use Material Design icons provided by Google in my web app. According Apache License I guess I must mention the author. How should I do it? a) Write into footer something like: "All icons ...

I am starting an open source project that consist of two parts: a program for reading, writing, modifying, and displaying information from file and a standard for the file. Obviously, this project may ...

The GPL does not allow people to impose additional copyright restrictions on top of those that already exist in the terms and conditions of the GPL itself. However, the GPL does allow the original ...

If a person releases their source under some Open source license. And later if another person contributes to the project through a pull request (in Github). Then, does the contributor gets a say if ...

If i include Javascript snippet inside a GPL php page, have i to include a license comment in the page? Or insert the license comment on the main style.css is enough?

If i include Google Analytics JS code inside a php page GPL licensed (WordPress template), is it ok with GPL license? I'm asking beacause i think Google Analytics is no open source code. Thanks

A library I used in my native Visual C++ application was GPLv3-licensed; I found the GPL acceptable, and thus I was planning to make my application GPL-licensed as well. The application depends on ...

I want to take some GPLv2 licensed code written by someone else and add code with a BSD-3-Clause license, originally written by someone else. This BSD-code has been modified by me to add some ...

When in the open source licenses is required to indicate the author, can i use simply the domain of the website (not the company name)? @curiousdannii thanks for point me this other question, but i ...

Here i found many answer that said: for open source licenses js/css in a website are considered distributed. In this topic people said that js/css in a website are not distributed: https://wordpress....

I am making a website and the website components are one master server and a lot of slave VPS, as usual the VPS providers will rent those servers to me. The website will use a module which is under ...

According to german law, can one get all copyrights on software derivative if one added enough new code? if yes, how is the "percentage of new code" measured? if yes, are there such paragraphs in ...

I am developing a commercial wordpress plugin. There is a form module that i have to develop however, i found one already built under GPL2 here https://github.com/weDevsOfficial/weforms All other ...

If I made some contributions to a repository on Github and then decided to delete the source code that I contributed, are other users of the repository still allowed to use that particular source code?...

I wrote a library in Java for Bcrypt. Bcrypt's OpenBSD implementation uses a exotic flavour of the standard RFC Base64 encoding. Since there are no standard implementations for this, I modified (and ...

I want to generate Twibright Optar compatible printed pages but I do not want to license my project under GNU GPL license. The format is simple enough to make a completely new generator tool in few ...

A product that I'm developing uses a component that is licensed under GPL v3. I do not want to redistribute the software: I plan to have a paid service where users can access my software through ...

I saw tool from ubuntu web platform called documentation-builder https://docs.ubuntu.com/documentation-builder/en/ and this is what exactly I need for my product. And my product is commercial one. Can ...

If I want to distribute a GNU/Linux distribution as a .iso, I must : Distribute the source code of the Linux kernel Distribute the source code of any GPL (or some other license) package included in ...

I want to release some software anonymously. My first idea was to release it to the public domain, but I have found out that it is not a safe practice due to incompatibilities with the legislation of ...

I am working on a software wich contains graphics i didn't make that are licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. since the software contains other parts I didn't make, I want to put it under two different ...

I have seen that there is a question about gpl and dual licensing, but I know copyleft can behave different depending on the shape of the software. so here's my question: I have a package of lua ...

I was using the project, and I did not know this until I was going to use the software on production, and it showed a warning when it realized it's not development mode. I found an open-source ...