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BSD Licensed code used as a part of a research project
I'm currently learning a bit more about software licenses and have realized how permissive the 3-clause BSD license is. I have a small question. If I use BSD licensed code for a computation in a ...
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BSD-3/MIT etc. - How "often" do I need to include the license text?
For instance, the BSD-3 Clause license states:
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/...
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Name/pseudonym change in copyright notice in license
I have several open source projects and was about to upload another one (to github) when I started wondering about the licensee in the license text. Some of my existing projects use either my real ...
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Reuse of source code having BSD License in Android App
I have successfully developed an Android App in Android Studio but the final thing which is disturbing me is that, my app contains code from a GitHub repository that has BSD license as given below:
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Who owns copyright if I place code in a repository but do not update the copyright notice?
I think my case is covered by Who will be the copyright owner of a new file in a forked repository on github?, but I want to be sure that it applies in my situation, too.
I forked a project licensed ...
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What does "with modifications" mean in BSD licenses?
All BSD licenses start with the following paragraph:
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
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In the BSD license, what does "redistribution" mean?
I'm trying to understand all the responsibilities of this license.
Does redistribution mean:
publicly placing a windows .exe using the BSD licensed library for users to download on a website(free and ...
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Is copyright of a contribution to a BSD 2-clause project automatically assigned to the project's copyright owner?
The 2-clause BSD licence includes the clause:
Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
What implications does this ...
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GPL/BSD-like Dual license add special clauses to the GPL
Quick question: I would like to publish a software under a self-written BSD-like license, and under the GPLv3. So far so good.
If somebody would fork said project according to the GPL, I would, in my ...
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A small Go library under GPLv2, rewrite it under modified BSD
Go is using a modified BSD license. I would like to use the same license for some projects, most parts / libraries will be published under an open source license, but clients do demand some of the ...
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How to handle the copyright notice of a BSD 3-clause licence when modifying it
If I take some BSD 3-claused code and modify it, do I then have the right to place my own copyright under the original author's copyright notice?
I.e.
BSD 3-Clause License
Copyright (c) 2018, ...
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Should I put PATENTS file to build folder
There is an editor Draft.js. It's licensed under the BSD-style License. Every file in the source code has a copyright notice. Here is a piece of that notice:
* This source code is licensed under the ...
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What's the usual procedure when using MIT or BSD-2-Clause licensed source code with something like `<script src="…`, `require(…` or `import …`?
This is not a legal question. It might touch the legal aspects around Open Source licenses but I need general help understanding how they work and what the usual procedure is.
Part 1 of my question: ...
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Under what licenses can I release open source software that uses PyQt?
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I have two software packages for which I need to choose a license and I'm not sure if they get along with the PyQt licensing schema (which uses the GNU GPL).
Package A uses PyQt in a sense ...
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Copyright until the present year in BSD license?
I have the following line in my BSD (new, 2 clause) open-source code:
// Copyright (c) 2003-present, Jodd Team (http://jodd.org)
Previously, I've used a real year (e.g. 2003-2014). However, updating ...
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