Questions tagged [github]
GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service, which offers free accounts for FLOSS software projects. Use this tag for questions about how working with GitHub affects open source projects.
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How do I go about rebranding a fully deleted project that used to have a GNU General Public License v3.0 but is now fully inaccessible
The title is pretty much it. There is a fork of this project that I had started making before they wiped all traces of the application. Now I'm stuck with a fully rebranded application that I want to ...
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Is it allowed to use web APIs exposed in open-source code?
I often find web projects on GitHub where the author has included their private web API in the code. Is it reasonable to use the author's publicly available web API from the perspective of community ...
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Is it legal and ethical to copy someone else's GitHub Gist into my own repository? [duplicate]
I'm writing a Markdown file for personal documentation and learning purposes. I found a useful piece of code in a public GitHub Gist, but also I changed it a bit to fit my needs. I'd like to include ...
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Need Help Regarding Licensing for Samsung Kernel Sources
I'm planning to push Samsung Kernel Source to GitHub and need some guidance on the appropriate licensing. Specifically, I'm wondering:
What license should I use for the Samsung Kernel Source?
Can I ...
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If LGPL 2.1 source code is in my project. Does the whole project need to be LGPL? Or just the class that call it?
I'm relatively new to library licenses and come from a game development background.
I'm developing an open-source game development tool that directly includes the source code of an LGPL 2.1 library.
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Are GitHub Actions open source?
So far from what i have seen:
all Actions are using the MIT LICENSE, which allows to change and spread the code when continueing to use that licesene.
GitHub Actions also have to be kept on a public ...
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License conflicts in Blender shaders
The Blender source code contains the node codes under the GPL license for GLSL, and the exact same code in C++ in cycles for the Apache license. Can I port the Apache code to GLSL, and still use the ...
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How do I release code written for a company to the public?
I'm working on a Unity project for a company and, while doing so, I wrote some code that I think would be cool to have it on the internet, free to use.
But I never released something that is owned by ...
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How to comply with MIT licenses for third-party libraries in my GitHub project? [duplicate]
I am planning to upload a project to GitHub, which I will later host on a web hosting service solely for the purpose of having a project in my portfolio. I am using the following third-party libraries ...
Sergio