Questions tagged [distribution]
For questions concerning the distribution of an object, package or notice to the developer or public community.
7 questions from the last 365 days
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Sharing own software with a restricted group of persons
I am coding a new application. I would like to temporarily share it with a restricted group of persons to only have a feedback about some implemented features.
My application links against some qt (...
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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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NuGet and LGPL libraries
We're creating software written on the .NET platform.
As such, we're obviously heavily reliant on the NuGet package manager.
Some of these packages are LGPL (2.1, 3) licensed. As this other question ...
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When is internal use internal (considering licenses and their obligations)?
The usual FLOSS licenses talk about distribution of binaries and possibly the obligations to share code if I distribute the binaries in case of strong copyleft licenses (e.g. GPL).
But the question ...
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Is 2.11BSD source code encumbered?
The early '90s brouhaha regarding USL code in 4BSD was eventually sorted out with the release of 4.4BSD-Lite. How did this agreement apply (if at all) to 2BSD source code, and was an unencumbered ...
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Where to provide a link to the repository in the distributed software?
I have a hosted OS project that uses the MIT license attributed to my user name. I also provide packaged releases of the software for convenience (so users don't need to build and package locally). ...
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Way to share code built on scripts with Creative Commons licence including no derivative clause?
I invested a considerable amount of time translating a set of Matlab scripts into Python and subsequently conducted extensive testing to ensure that the Python scripts returned the exact same values/...
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