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How to Comply With MIT Licensed SVG In Print
I have found an MIT licensed SVG that I wish to use in print, for instance a business card.
The relevant part of the MIT license:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be ...
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Can one of several heirs of a copyright release it under a Creative Commons license, and if so, how?
Alice created a work and died without publishing it. Bob and Charlie jointly inherited the copyright. All three live(d) in the United States. Bob wants to publish the work under a Creative Commons ...
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How do I properly put third-party dependencies under MIT on my copyright notice for a published MacOS app on the App Store?
If IconCast is the name of a close-sourced app I'm publishing that makes money, and AppIconSetGen, an open source library under the MIT license made by someone else that I made some changes to (which ...
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What rights do Artistic 2.0 licence gives to the Author?
I am not sure that this license grants the Author the right of referencing its name in future modifications of Open-Source code. Does this license grant the Licensee the right to sell the modified ...
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What to put in header copyright notice after total conversion of library that didn't have license headers?
I want to convert a C# library (not written by myself) licensed under Apache License v2 to C++.
The original C# library has a LICENSE file with the Apache license information, however the individual ...
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System libraries and exceptions regarding closed source distribution
There are some specific usage examples I would like to learn, regarding of using some open source libraries inside a commercial closed source product(binary, executable). Most of the answers online ...
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Who will be the copyright owner of a new file in a forked repository on github?
Let's say there is a MIT Licensed repository on github, then by definition all the files that belongs to the repository is owned by the copyright holder of the repository.
But if I fork the project ...
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How should I identify myself in a copyright notice / license?
(migrated from programmers.SX)
I'm placing a copyright notice with some (FOSS) license in a LICENSE file in a software package I'm publishing; or it's a license block in a source file.
It starts like ...
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What entities are eligible to copyright a project?
Me and my friend want to make business on customization of our open source project. We have NOT yet registered the project trademark NOR started a company.
Сan we write in Copyright 2019 [name of ...
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Does a central copyright and license notice cover all the files in a software program?
Some open-source programs have a single copyright and license notice in the README file, while others put a notice in each file in the program.
I prefer the first practice because it makes the code ...
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Copyright on files copied from other Open Source project to my Open Source
I'm working on Open Source Java library. I don't want to waste time writing classes that Spring framework already has. I want to copy single files from Spring Framework and refactor it to cut ...
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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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How to deal with licences after forking a project?
I forked a project with an MIT license on GitHub:
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2012 Some Name
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
of this software ...
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