Questions tagged [law]
For questions about the legal aspects of open source. Questions asking for legal advice are off-topic. You should consider mentioning the relevant legal jurisdiction in your question.
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How does the 3-clause BSD license apply to LaTeX and PDF's?
I've found a nice resume template written in LaTeX, and it has the BSD 3-clause license. In my thinking, BSD makes perfect sense for executable code, but we are talking about a document here, and I ...
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Startup based on my own side project open-sourced through my employer
I work at a FAANG-size company (moonlighting friendly in theory) and have a side project that I've built mostly in my free time, a bit during work hours, and had it recently approved by the legal ...
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What parts of code are protected by copyright?
Open Source licenses are all underpinned by copyright law. Without copyright law, Open Source would fall apart.
Copyright was originally written for creative works, and does not protect facts, ideas, ...
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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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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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Is it legal to use GPL code in plugins of a proprietary app?
I know this question seems to be the nth of this sort, but I could not find a clear answer to my question.
I am working on a keyboard launcher app. Its license is a custom proprietary license. The ...
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How much of a given work of software can be claimed under fair use? [closed]
I've found that my most recent project has been taking a significant portion code from a GNU GPL code base. While i’m aware that the nature of copyright law allows for such usage, I’m unclear about ...
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Dual-licensing standard verbiage for “sublicensable OR”?
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I want to distribute my code simultaneously under multiple open-source licenses, so that consumers who have problems with one license might rest easy in the terms of another.
I've currently ...
