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11 questions linked to/from Should I include license text in a single file or all source files?
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Where should I place my Open Source license file in my project? [duplicate]
I have a license file for my open source project.
Where in the project's directories hierarchy should I put that file?
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Does every file need to have GPLv2+ mentioned in the header to be GPLv2? [duplicate]
So all Wordpress plugins are supposed to be GPLv2 or higher. We'd like to fork a plugin that currently integrates with one system and change it to integrate with a different system. There's a readme....
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What's the difference between Copyright and Licensing?
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There are two other questions, specifically related to Licensing and Copyright.
In reviewing the answers and comments, I get the feeling that people generally consider the two to be the ...
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Should I include a copyright line in every file?
This is similar to my other question, but specifically about Copyright rather than Licensing.
Typically, each source file contains a line of the form
Copyright 2010-2015, Me
Is this strictly ...
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How to apply MIT license in the GitHub repo for fully free project?
I have a public repository for an open source project on GitHub. It's main goal is to
make this code available to anybody (including myself) who may what to use it, for free, for all the time, with ...
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Combining code written under different licenses (Eiffel Forum License, MIT and Apache), what are my options?
So I'm new to all this licensing jazz, and I've just started work on a project I'd like to one day publish as open source.
I've found a couple of projects so far that have code to accomplish stuff ...
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How to add a licensed piece of code to my own repository? (Brainfuck)
For example, I'm building this Brainfuck interpreter. I want to add some people's programs as test cases. For example this program.
The program I want to add to my repository is MIT licensed in this ...
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Placement of copyright and license variables within Python source?
As mentioned in a previous question about the Apache 2.0 code header, I mentioned having the code header which is recommended by the Appendix of the Apache 2.0 license.
However there are two fields ...
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Applying GNU GPL and messages printed by a program
The full text of GNU GPL includes this advice:
If you develop a new program, and you want it to be of the greatest
possible use to the public, the best way to achieve this is to make it
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How can I open source a repository on GitHub by using Apache license in only one file?
To license a project in GitHub, can I do it like this:
There are many files like src->Java, res, etc for my Android app
So I want to use Apache license v 2.0 for open sourcing it
So will the ...
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Using open source license text verbatim without attribution
I came across an open-source software project, and its license contains verbatim text from the MIT license, although without directly mentioning that it is the MIT license (I know separately that the ...
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