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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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Excluding open-source contributions from work-for-hire
I'm doing contract work. I'm being asked to sign a standard (AFAICT) agreement that assigns all intellectual property I create to the employer. The context of this work is typical Python and Go ...
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Copyright of proprietary code created by author of MIT licensed code
I have employed a developer for a project who has developed a CMS platform and licensed it under MIT license.
Now that developer is going to use that MIT licensed CMS in my project. No problem.
The ...
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Copyright notices and multiple developers
Suppose a big project with GPL license has several developers, most of whom working on a few source files. Is it appropriate/possible that the copyright notice in each source file include only the ...
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Help with getting permission to open source a small piece of software
If you are an employee, work you do in the course of your job (as opposed to in your spare time) is
a "work for hire" and the copyright is by default owned by the company you work for.
How do you go ...
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Does the owner of the github repository own the copyright to the code?
Say I'm the only one uploading code to someone's private repository, do they own the copyright to the code? Or do I own the copyright to the code since I wrote it?
Would adding a license stating ...
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Acknowledging employer in an open source project
My employer has given me to permission to open source a component of a project that I have been working on, allowing me to retain ownership and control, with the condition that they be acknowledged in ...
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Can copyright of an open sourced product be passed down through generations? [closed]
Background:
From other posts I have learned that copyrights expire some amount of time after the owner's death. But from what I know ownership can be passed on after death. If the owner of a ...
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