Questions tagged [gpl-3]
The General Public License, offered by GNU. Use this tag if the question involves version 3 of the license.
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Can a copyleft, GPLv3 project be closed by its copyright holder?
Let's say a private company released a popular software product under a copyleft (GPLv3) license. It's business model was offering consulting services and premium features for a fee, which in turn ...
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Open-source project and assets
There is open-source project under GPL 3 hosted on GitHub. The project contains source code and assets (images, sounds etc.). Can I legally use only assets (without soruce code) for custom, commercial ...
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GPLv3 - Explicit version number / “or any later version” - Implications?
This is my understanding about how software licenses work in most jurisdictions — I add this, because it might help to clearify things:
When I attach a license to a program, the license governs my ...
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Pitfalls for beginners forking GPL3 code on GitHub?
I have found a nice program on GitHub that reads data from “A” and puts it in a text file, it is released under GPL3.
I want to modify it to put the data in a database instead and then release it as ...
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Adding a very minor part of GPL3 code to a BSD-licensed project
I am porting a library that somebody else released under BSD-3 license from Fortran to C++. In order to make it run easily under C++, I am using an interface that is only a very minor and almost ...
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Am I allowed to decompile a GPL3 software if I didn't get source with it?
Consider a situation if I have a code licensed with GPL3, but no source arrived with it.
The original source code is unavailable, either because the other part simply won't give it (violating GPL3 ...
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Is a git repository enough to show changes to the code for GNU-GPLv3?
I want to create a fork of an opensource project.
I'm planning to make significant changes to it and I will keep these changes on a git(hub) repository that is available to anyone. As such changes ...
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Qt Assistant under GPL3 + Qt Company GPL Exception 1.0
I have a proprietary closed-source project. In this project I use Qt5 under LGPL.
Now I want to add documentation to my project. Can I just add Qt Assistant into my distribution (under GPL3-EXCEPT, ...
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LGPL3 code in GPL3 project
It seems like this should be obvious, but I'm not finding an answer. LGPL is a subset of GPL, IIRC, so can I use LGPL code in a GPL project?
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can hello world be GPLv3+ licensed?
For the purpose of giving (on the phone) a micro tutorial on GNU make, I am considering writing two hello world programs in C.
The first one fits in a single file helloworld1.c
The second ...
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Can GPL-3.0 licensed product be integrated with a commercial product , if it is hosted as a separate microservice?
The plan is to use mosaico - open source email editor under license GPL-3.0 - in one of our commercial products. If we hosted mosaico as a separate microservice (with gpl license) and our non gpl ...
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Copyright of MIT licenced libraries usage within GPL licensed code
My software is completely written in python and has the following architecture of down cascaded dependencies. I plan to share my whole source code (FileA, FileB, FileC) next time in GitHub:
FileA: ...
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Can I translate an app under GPLv3 into Swift without using GPLv3?
Can I translate an App from Android using GPLv3 into Swift? Because actually I don't use any source code. Do I need to keep it under GPLv3 and open source? Is there any method to avoid infection if it ...
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GNU GPL based commercial project
I am currently developing a IoT based software which will run on a Raspberry pi and distributed to user(like a product). I also want to place another software on the Raspberry pi which will work in ...
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Restrict GPLv3 to non-commercial use [duplicate]
My question is very similar, but crucially different from this one.
I have a library that I want to offer under a dual license: GPLv3 and commercial. GPL so others can read, maintain and modify if ...
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Is GPL “for research purposes only” self-contradictory?
So I used a piece of software which claims to be open source and is licensed under "GPL for research purposes only".
As far as I know, GPL 2 and 3 are not themselves free, in sense that you can't ...
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Can I insist on GPL version 3.0 terms when requesting GPL code from an embedded manufacturer?
I have an embedded device that contains software licensed under the GPL version 2.0 'or any later version'. The company that produced it never released any GPL code, and I plan to request it from them....
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Clarification of gpl v3 section 9
This question occurred to me as a result of Stephen Kitt's comment below my recent post, How to properly display the Copyright information in the User Interface or product documentation?
His comment:
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Creating a new open source License based off of the GPL? [duplicate]
Hey suppose I would like to create a new modification of the GPL 3.0 license, would I be allowed to copy the GPL, modify it, and then rename it to something else?
I.e. is the GPL license itself open ...
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load in runtime an extern .qml file with GPL license
This is my question related with GPL and extern GPL scripts:
I have a closed source project plus an extern .qml file, in the app root folder, that uses some GPL QT modules (for example, Virtual ...
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Using iText library with AGPL license to make application open sourced
I am working on a project to generate a 508 compliant annual PDF Publication from our database using iText 7 java library. This library works great for accessible PDFs. We are in the process of ...
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Can I add a license to a forked repository? Can I license only my added code?
I would like to fork an existing repository which has no existing license. I would then like to add the GNU GPLv3 license to any code that I write, but it seems as though I cannot apply this license ...
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Can GPL v3 Back-End be used for iOS apps without opening of whole program code
We are developing an iOS app in which all of the front-end is based on MIT/Apache/BSD components, while server part is fully on GPL v3.
All these licenses are compatible, so there is no problem with ...
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Can we use the source code of a GPL library when we have contributed to the library
I have contributed to a GPL library and I am using that library in my project as a module. Do I have to make my entire project open source or, as I have contributed to the library and the source code ...
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Could I remove GPLv2 from this algorithm implementation?
I have a project that I started a long time ago and licensed under GPLv3.
It uses an implementation of a particular algorithm, where the implementation is licensed under GPLv2.
The algorithm is the ...
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Used code from two differnetly licensed projects - which license should I use for mine?
In my project, I have copied and used code from two other projects, one of which is licensed under GPLv3 and the other one has an MIT license.
Which license should I use for my project?
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Can software licensed under the GPLv2 be included in GPLv3 software?
I'm writing a database library in Java which is licensed under the GPLv3, and I want to include the MySQL JDBC driver in it, which is licensed under the GPLv2. Are there any restrictions stopping me ...
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How to license or patent an open standard for a GPL program?
I am starting an open source project that consist of two parts: a program for reading, writing, modifying, and displaying information from file and a standard for the file. Obviously, this project may ...
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Redistributing MSVC runtime components with GPL application
A library I used in my native Visual C++ application was GPLv3-licensed; I found the GPL acceptable, and thus I was planning to make my application GPL-licensed as well. The application depends on ...
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Is renting a vps makes me the owner?
I am making a website and the website components are one master server and a lot of slave VPS, as usual the VPS providers will rent those servers to me.
The website will use a module which is under ...
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Can I use GPL v3 licensed software in a commercial application that is accessed through web APIs?
A product that I'm developing uses a component that is licensed under GPL v3.
I do not want to redistribute the software: I plan to have a paid service where users can access my software through ...
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GPLv2 library with GPLv3 build scripts
The NetworkManager library is released under GPLv2 license (https://cgit.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/tree/COPYING?h=1.12.0).
Some of the build scripts are GPLv3 (some having the ...
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Wiki template licensing?
I do some editing for Wiki A, which is generally licensed in a typical wiki fashion:
Content is available under GNU FDL 1.3 unless otherwise noted.
Wiki B uses some templates I'd like to copy for ...
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Attack vectors against GPLv3 and how to prevent them? [closed]
One way to get around the GPLv2 is tivoization. Users get the source code and are allowed to modify it but the hardware rejects any modified software thus denying users some rights that were intended ...
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Embedding GPL code in proprietary software
Here's a tricky situation that I didn't encounter before:
My company embeds a piece of slightly modified GPLv3 code into their otherwise proprietary application. They don't link a library or ...
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Can you make GPL-licensed software using the Tizen SDK?
Unfortunately, Tizen has a proprietary SDK, as discussed here, which mandates that:
You may not use any component part of the Tizen SDK in any way
independent from the Tizen SDK. You may not load ...
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What exactly is Tivoization and why did Linus Torvalds not like it in GPLv3?
I still don't understand what is Tivoization and why Linus Torvalds did not like it. Can you explain to me the big idea of Tivoization?
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Can I use code with MIT license with my GPLv2 or v3 code? [duplicate]
Let's say that I make a program and I put it on Github with GPLv2 license. Can i later add code from another person that has MIT license (adding his/her license in the repository of course).
How ...
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If I convert GPLv3-covered source code into a physical object, what counts as “conveyance”?
Under my interepretation of the GPLv3, specifically the following:
“Object code” means any non-source form of a work.
and
You may convey a covered work in object code form under the terms of ...
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Can I license Latex code under GPL but the content under CC BY-SA?
I have written a non-trivial scientific text for university.
It is written in Latex and I want to make the source available under GPL (v3 if that matters) so other can learn from my Latex skills. ...
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Extend GPL to be informed in case of derivative work
I understand that any work that is based on work licensed under GPL must also be released under GPL. However, it does not require contacting original authors about the fact that a derivative work has ...
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Can I put a copyright on my website and make the code private when the source code is partially copied from an open source GNU GPL V3 project
I've rewritten my personal website using this https://github.com/bk2dcradle/researcher . I've made some significant changes. Like I did on my previously (built from scratch) website, I'd like to add ...
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Can I use GPL 3.0 or LGPL licensed libraries in my commercial closed source IOT product?
I am building an IOT product, an home automation solution, where I am using ESP8266 Arduino Core that is LGPL-2.1 and also few libraries which are GPL 3.0 licensed.
For security reasons I do not ...
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GPLv2 or later upgrade to AGPLv3
I modify open source software that is under ‚GPLv2 or later‘. I will upgrade to GPLv3 or later – that‘s of course no problem at all. Not looking for advice in this case, but is it possible to upgrade ...
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Is using the GPLv3 without putting a license notice in each source file OK?
I have published code on GitHub with the following license:
Quantum including:
Main.scala
Enrichment/
package.scala
Graphics/
Canvas.scala
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Am I allowed to use a GPL-3 library in a closed source web application?
I am working on an Angular5 web application. It is written in Typescript, and then compiled to Javascript. This is not a real compilation, just a minification
The server which serves the .js files is ...
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Is it more accurate to compare CC BY-SA to LGPL rather than GPL?
CC BY-SA, LGPL and GPL are all copyleft licenses. GPL's key feature is that by embedding one work in another (as defined in a software context), the combined work becomes GPL. With LGPL this is not ...
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Code generation, source-only dependencies and GPLv3
I'm building a Java annotation processor and looking for the correct license to use with respect to some requirements (see below).
Basically, a user of this tool:
depends on it during compilation (...
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Is it permissible to install Cygwin (GNU GPL) and its packages from within an installer for a proprietary and commercially sold application?
Is it legal to package the Cygwin installer executable — and some of its corresponding packages — and run it from another installer that installs a proprietary and commercially sold application?
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What parts of license to put on “show w” and “show c” command?
My program came with GNU GPL 3 license and has a COPYING file which has the copy of GNU GPL 3 license inside.
I finished my open source program, with all of its documentations. I followed the GPL ...
