Questions tagged [copyright]
For questions about the copyrighting process and principles. Questions solely pertaining to general copyright are off topic.
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Can copyright of an open sourced product be passed down through generations? [closed]
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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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Can a license on a open source product expire?
Background:
While I know that copyrights on open source products expire. I have never come across anything regarding licenses, this lead me to ask this question:
My Question:
Can licenses expire?
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What happens to an open source project when the copyright expires?
With conventional copyright, N years after the author's death the copyright expires (where N varies from country to country). Since free and open source licences are supported legally by copyright law,...
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Does being open sourced mean others can use my logo?
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I have created an open source application
I have also created a snazzy logo to go with the application (for example, the Eclipse logo)
I released my application's source code under a ...
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What happens if stolen software is published as Open Source?
This is not a real world issue, at least for me. It is more about a thought experiment from a talk that I once had with a friend:
Let's say that Acme develops closed source software for their own ...
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Is copyright automatic?
If I publish something on my website is a form of copyright automatically placed on that text?
For example I know if you specifically say "This is published under [insert some cc license here]" then ...
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What's the difference between Copyright and Licensing?
Preamble
There are two other questions, specifically related to Licensing and Copyright.
In reviewing the answers and comments, I get the feeling that people generally consider the two to be the ...
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Should I include a copyright line in every file?
This is similar to my other question, but specifically about Copyright rather than Licensing.
Typically, each source file contains a line of the form
Copyright 2010-2015, Me
Is this strictly ...
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Jurisdictions without compatible copyright law
Free software licences such as GPL depend on copyright law in order to be legally enforcable.
Are there jurisdictions in which the law does not enforce such licenses, allowing the license to be ...
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Do we need to follow the license for CA certs?
Some OSS projects include CA certificates and claims that they are subject to a particular OSS license. For example the certificates in https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla/source/security/nss/lib/ckfw/...
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