Questions tagged [derivative-works]
For questions about works that derive their core from another open work.
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Why would the GPL be "viral", while EUPL isn't, according to the EUPL authors?
So, according to the FSF, any work that links to a GPL licensed work is considered a derivative work, and thus also needs to be covered by the GPL.
The EUPL also demands derivative works to become ...
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Proprietary code uses licensed FOSS library: do I have to provide sources?
I'm currently figuring out the licensing implications for a software tool my current employer has made.
They use files covered under EUPL in a proprietary project. As far as I can understand, this is ...
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Best practices for relicensing what was once a derivative work
I forked a project which had the MIT license. I made substantial changes to it, rewriting it in a different language (from C++ to C) and now only a few small vestiges of the original are left in the ...
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Allow commercial use, but require removal of company name
I'm planning to draft policies for my company. I'd like to release these policies as open source so that others may use them for their own purposes. I don't mind how they use or modify them, but I do ...
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EPL 2.0 and adding new files to the project
What happens when someone creates a fork of a library under EPL 2.0, and this fork modifies some files and adds some new files?
I can see that the modified files should retain EPL2 license, but what ...
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Do I put my license/copyright header on top of a permissively-licensed file I found on the internet?
I found a nice Python class on a website devoted to nice Python gists - and on its web page (but not in the source code) it has the author's name and says it is PSF licensed - which wikipedia says is ...
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If an AI is trained on code under a specific license (e.g. MIT) would it be legal to use the generated code under that same license? [duplicate]
I wonder if it would be legal to train AI code generators on various code bases separated by license and then get assistance on your project by whatever model complies with your project's license.
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Is it allowed to statically link to a library licensed under Eclipse Public License 2.0 without publishing the source code of linked software?
Let's say I've developed a library and licensed it under EPL 2.0.
If somebody statically links his/her software to my library, is that software considered a derivative/modified work?
Does s/he has to ...
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