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How to distribute LGPL2.1 dependency shared lib with a python package?
I am working on python bindings for a C library, which uses LGPL2.1.
My Python bindings for the library link dynamically against it. For the python bindings to work when installed I need to ship them ...
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How to open-source code for an ebook-style iOS Qt app but retain control of the content? [duplicate]
Years ago (whenever Qt 5.7 was current), as a contractor I developed a closed source tablet app for a company with (at the time) a commercial license for Qt (they assigned me a license seat). The app ...
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Should I get rid of "All rights reserved"?
Almost all my open source files has "All rights reserved" written along the usual "copyright © 2XXX My name" in the first line. I recently heard that, besides being obsolete, this ...
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How can i use pandasgui commercially if the pyqt library used is not free for commercial use?
pandasgui allows commercial use under the MIT license but I noticed the library used includes PYQT5 which is under the GPL v3 licence how is that possible ?
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Copy license terms from other product?
This might not be a very "open source" question, but I thought I might find in this forum the right people for the question.
For a mortal human being creating a PDF with the license terms ...
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Propietary licensing of open source code
I have written a program that uses several open source components. First off, it's written in python. Second, I use the modules subprocess, argparse, os and datetime.
Since my work asked me to find a ...
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How does copyright interact with licenses?
This came to my mind recently as I was thinking of releasing some code I wrote under a license.
The Xcode IDE automatically inserts the following at the top of new files:
//
// [filename]
// [...
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Open-source license that should aware if I want monetize my project
I'm creating a website. Some of functionaly is using open-source libraries from npm, github, etc.
I want to monetize my sites using ads, or even I want to create some sites template and sell to ...
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Distributing MIT application with GPLv3 plugin without releasing source for MIT application
We have a MIT licensed application which we sell packed under virtual appliance to our customers. the application has a marketplace where users can download and install additional plugins.
We wish to ...
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Who owns the rights to a logo contributed to an open-source project?
I recently designed a logo for an MIT-licensed open-source project.
That same open-source project has now launched a commercial offering under the same name (just using a .com instead of .org) domain,...
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How should I license my project if it can install GPL-based plugins?
I'm developing a software which has two parts, kernel and plugins, their code are completely separated. Here's the question:
Some of the plugins should be GPL based, as they invoked GPL code.
The ...
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What is the copyright status of Colossal Cave Adventure?
What is the copyright status of the source code of “Adventure” (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure)?
There is a good record today of the history of Adventure. Specifically: The 1975–1976 Crowther ...
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