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I have developed a Python package capable of generating a web page with some embedded tables and figures. The web page employs some open source components (namely Angular.js, Bootstrap and font-...

I am including a copy of SDL2.dll (https://www.libsdl.org/download-2.0.php) in my open source project. Do I need to also include the source code of SDL in my repository, add a document with the URL to ...

Can the author of software make it proprietary after making it gpl?

Is there a variation of the GPL/BSD licences that states that you may use modify and distribute this code however you please but in such a fashion that should your distribution of the code compete ...

I plan to develop an Application using an easy to use GPLv2 licensed libraries. Once my app is complete I plan to distribute it FREE and OPEN SOURCE complying with GPLv2 copyleft requirements. The ...

I have found a piece of software which I have grown so fond of that I wish to improve it. However, since the software is an MIT licensed project I could fear that the change I would like might not be ...

I need some resources (like books, etc...) to learn about software development life cycle (SDLC) in open source software development (and not the cycle a closed source company would follow when given ...

So I have a native library for Android that is built with ndk17. Do I need to include license information from android toolchain with my library package?

I want decent developers to extend and use my framework as they please. Is there a middle-ground where it is open source, but only to these with the permission? One of the 2 developers that uses it ...

I have a need to emulate a 6502 in my project, but I don't really want to spend time to develop and debug something to do that when there already exist many solutions to exactly that problem. ...

I need to use an EUPL 1.1 licensed library in my python app. Since, I don't want to disclose the source code of my app, I am thinking of creating a command line tool which will be invoked from my ...

I have a small java application which I was building with Oracle JDK till now. Now I am migrating this application to OpenJDK11 and am bit confused with the licensing. I am using RedHat distribution ...

I have a few questions about GPLv3 and I want to find an answer to them or confirm that what I've found is correct. Hypothesis: I pay 'someone' to make me a 'closed source' software. That someone ...

I would like to create a functional peice of mechanical hardware. To my knowledge, GPL-3.0 is compatible with non-software works. I would like to license the design of my under GPL-3.0. However, I ...

PaGMO 2 includes both GPL and LGPL in their copyright notices: Copyright 2017-2018 PaGMO development team This file is part of the PaGMO library. The PaGMO library is free software; you can ...

What I need to do is blogging about my own code. I already use github for my experiments and release code usually on GPL3. My wish is to write blog pages with code snippets from the GPL3 projects. ...

According to this answer (correct me if I'm wrong), copyleft software licenses don't do much when applied to hardware. Unlike software which is protected by copyright in any form, HDL/CAD hardware is ...

Would it be technically (legally) possible for the Linux kernel developers to create a new license (similar to GPLv2) but different in the sense that hardware manufacturers are prohibited from ...

Are websites made with Google Sites compatible with GPL 3.0? A prospective user can create a web site with Google Sites using the web editor, but the HTML output, which may be interprited as the ...

Suppose Mr. X releases his codes under a permissive license (say MIT), and I uses his codes in my proprietary software. Then suddenly he changes the licence to a copyleft licence (say GPL). Now as ...

Given that the overall yearly expense of Tor Project is around $2.4 million, what are all the expenses that are involved in it (like pay rolls, server bills, etc.)? I need to know this before I start ...

I am developing an open source Android app that has push notifications. If I understand https://developer.android.com/about/versions/oreo/background#services correctly, Android 8 forces me to use ...

We are currently developing an open source project using the MIT license, and we'd like to incorporate Microsoft's Visual Studio 2017 icons, which can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/...

I know the MIT license is suitable for code and its associated documentation. However, is it suitable for an open source specification (without any code)? Or should I use a different license (and ...

For software preservation reasons, I've been trying to sort out the licensing for a lot of 40-year-old CP/M code with an intent to liberate as much as possible. Back then formal licensing was very ...

So we have been discussing the implications of the GNU AGPL/GPL 3.0 license on our distributed code. I will make things, extremely simple. I hope. We will use AGPL in this example. We will write code....

Let's say heic is a patented image format. There is an open source implementation of heic called "libheif". GIMP use it to edit heic images, however, development team of Eye of Gnome(EOG) refuse to ...

As part of a survey (collecting environmental data from the public) my participants can choose to provide their name or to contribute anonymously. Part of the survey includes submission of photos that ...

When reading an open source project, I sometimes come across icons like these below; when I click this example, it will go to the AFNetworking open source project. What's this for? Is it just a link ...

A few months ago, MongoDB introduced a new license called SSPL following some conflicts with AWS. Later they presented this license to the Open Source Initiative (OSI) for approval for it to be called ...

For embedded system projects which have small hardware using MCU's and sensors and use open source c-source codes. How will it make a difference if my license is an MIT or a GNU licenses?

These questions can easily devolve into philosophizing, so let me be concrete: There is open source software X licensed under the GNU General Public License (v2 or later). X runs as a stand-alone ...

I've written a C library (minilibc) and at the time of releasing it I was unsure as to what license I was going to use, so I left it unlicensed. I've now decided on the LGPLv3+ and am unsure whether ...

Because copyright law can encompass a huge range of scenarios and be unclear to talk about in abstract terms, I'm going to give concrete examples. I understand CC BY is a permissive license. All it ...

I am making use of a library licensed under LGPLv2 in a proprietarily licensed closed-source project. Specifically, I am dynamically linking my commercial C++ program to a C++ library that is itself ...

Please, could you propose to me what kind of software license fits my project? I am creating a software project that relies on paid license software. I will release this software for free to help the ...

I have noticed no the Linux foundation web-site, that they claim that (summarised from https://www.linux.com/what-is-linux): Linus wrote Linux (not on this page) https://www.linux.com/blog/event/lc3-...

When I read the GitHub opensource project code: I see the Executable File 67 lines (60 sloc) 2.42 KB in front of the content. what's the meaning of Executable File? and the sloc? and when I ...

For my master thesis in software engineering I am looking into opensource projects using JIRA as an issue tracking system. However, other than Jenkins and the projects by Apache, it seems that such ...

I am planning to release a videogame with a map based on the real map of a city (or part thereof) based on the Open Street Map. It would also include Open Street Map in the game, almost certainly ...

When attributing open source software, do you always default to the current year or the year that the library you are using was built? For example, I'm using MIT licensed software from a build in ...

I'm quite confused about what are the obligations of GPL libraries in the context of plugin based software. Let's say I want to distribute & sell a plugin based app as closed source providing to ...

Part 1 I would like to use MySQL JDBC connector (called connector) licensed under GNU GPL V2 to exchange data to and from a MySQL database in my project, as far as i can read, If i add the connector ...

I'm sorry if my question is repeated, but I have searched and read allot about this topic and kind of confused and want to make sure at this point. I'm planning to use an open source tool that will be ...

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This question asks more from a maintainer's point of view -- obviously the right answer is to include LICENSE.txt in the distribution. What about on the user side? Obviously with some licenses there ...

I've asked a similar question about the Amazon AppStore, and now I'm curious about the Huawei App Gallery. Is it possible to submit an app licensed under the GPL v3 or later to that store without ...

Some times I step into software that I believe that is fully-open-source, but then I discover that it actually contains a lot of dependencies (either by the same author, or by different authors) for ...

I have modified a GPLv3 program to link to libtorch (part of PyTorch). PyTorch is licensed under the BSD-3 clause license. I would like to convey my changes to the original GPLv3 program and the ...

Normally I use the following format, Photo by Author / License Photo: Link to where I found the photo. Author: Author profile page. For example, flickr profile. License: Link to the license page. ...