Questions tagged [combined-work]
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Can I upgrade all CC 3.0 licenses to 4.0 counterparts when creating a joint dataset?
I am planning on creating a dataset which contains data with different licenses. I decided to create differently-licensed versions of my dataset that contain different combinations of data from ...
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What are the proper terms for those types of software combinations?
I am writing a python app and I am using external open source dependencies in 2 different ways:
A) standard import
B) calling an executable as a subprocess
What is the proper language to refer to such ...
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How do I make a partially-free open-core product that permits custom plugins?
I have a native application I would like to release under a copyleft license. The application embeds a Lua interpreter and exposes an application-specific interface to Lua code. I would like to ...
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How difficult is it for a developer to combine features from two separate open source solutions?
My company is looking to build a marketplace for peer to peer services. You could think Thumbtack type setup. We have identified two to three open-source platforms we could use as a base, but each ...
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Use of GPL licensed driver in commercial project
In a commercial project for our customer, I would like to install a driver on all target machines. The driver is on sourceforge (http://com0com.sourceforge.net/). The website states that:
The Null-...
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Can I combine GPLv2 and BSD-3-Clause code and keep the BSD permissions?
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 ...
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Using GPL-covered dataset in non-GPL code
We are currently writing a piece of software. In it, we want to use the Disconnect.me tracking services list. The list is licensed under the GPLv3. Our code will generally only run on servers, but we ...
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How to fulfill the conditions of the MIT license for a code contribution [duplicate]
If I have a project licensed under the MIT License, and I find a snippet of code I want to integrate into my project, also licensed under MIT, how do I fulfill the conditions of the project the ...
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Can I combine multiple 2-Clause BSD LICENSE files into one?
Suppose I have a program which uses the BSD 2-Clause license:
Copyright (c) 2016 Myself
All Rights Reserved
[BSD 2-Clause boilerplate here]
It happens to use a library, in some foo/ subdirectory ...
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How to combine multiple LICENSE notes into single file?
What is the exact format to combine multiple LICENSE notes from different projects into a single file?
The specific project is Python binding for OpenCV. The binding itself is MIT licensed, OpenCV is ...
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What license do I apply to my software if parts of its code is derived from MIT licensed open source software?
This is the first time I'm handling licenses and could use some guidance in this matter.
I have developed a piece of Java software where parts of the code is derived from different classes licensed ...
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Does physically removing GPL code relieve combined work from GPL publication requirements?
Here's the scenario. Alice crafted a compression library and published it under GPL. Bob crafted a font processing library which uses pieces of code from Alice's library and ... let's call it overly ...
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Copying a file from an open source project
I want to copy a file from a project licensed under a New BSD license. My own project is licensed under an MIT license. The file is simple batch script for locating build tools and starting the build. ...
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