Questions tagged [attribution]
For questions about how to correctly attribute the authors of works in derived works
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How to attribute which parts of the code are authored by someone else?
I have borrowed some lines of code (suppose just 20 lines of a function) from a GitHub repository that is licensed under the MIT License. I plan to use these lines in my personal project.
Is it ...
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Is the advertising clause 3 of the BSD-4-Clause overrated?
Note: I think BSD-4-Clause is rightly outdated and rightly not listed by the OSI. This is also not a question about compatibility with other licenses. It is purely about interpreting the advertising ...
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Is Firefox's about:license non-compliant wrt. MIT and BSD style Licenses?
The Firefox (ref: V 127.0.2 on Windows) License Page about:license diligently lists all potential open source licenses involved.
In an attempt to make this mess shorter, the devs have opted to group ...
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Is the NuGet license type 'expression' broken?
NuGet packages, for the purpose of telegraphing the license of a package,
have - or rather should have used to - the field <licenseUrl> that could link to a
license for the package.
licenseUrl ...
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