Questions tagged [license-compatibility]
License compatibility is the comparison of two or more licenses to determine if certain usages and actions can be made. Use this tag if the question would like to determine the compatibility of licenses, or their individual clauses.
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What might be the licence for OpenAI model generated code snippets?
I saw an interesting video on computer-generated code snippets. The model has been trained on thousands of open source GitHub repositories.
In the video, an AI model produced some small code ...
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Blender addon interface with non-GPL compatible renderer through OpenGL driver using system library exception?
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I'm making a 3D rendering addon for Blender which is GPL 2/3 code that needs to communicate with non-GPL compatible library that does the rendering. I need some of this communication to be as fast ...
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Are you required to license code under GPL if you're using TypeScript types from a GPL library?
I'm currently using a library that was licensed under the GNU General Public License (particularly GPL v3.0). This library consists mostly of types for software that is also under the GPL (but not ...
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Should I get rid of "All rights reserved"?
Almost all my open source files has "All rights reserved" written along the usual "copyright © 2XXX My name" in the first line. I recently heard that, besides being obsolete, this ...
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Source and jar without dependencies under MIT, runnable jar with dependencies under GPL
I would like to develop MIT (or Apache 2.0)-licensed software using an LGPL library.
As far as I understand this is allowed as long as I'm distributing the library in a separate jar file and loading ...
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What is the difference between GPL classpath exception and linking exception?
So I read that OpenJDK is under the GPLv2 with linking exception. What is a Classpath exception and a linking exception? The JDK that I'm using(Amazon Corretto which is a build of OpenJDK) is under ...
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How I do pack JAXB 2.3.3 with my open source programme?
I wrote a little java programme in Java 8 that uses a lot JAXB stuff that I ship as a free JAR, licensed under GPL.
Users that have installed Java 9/10 installed need to use jvm parameters to run it. ...
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How do I go about having stuff licensed differently in a project licensed under a different license?
Suppose my project A is licensed under AGPL v3.
Now I choose to include stuff (a filter list actually) from different sources, which are licensed under GPLv2, CC-BY 4.0, and I have combined them in a ...
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MIT and MS-LPL license compatibility options
My project is MIT licensed and 3rd party code is all either ISC or MIT licensed which are both compatible licenses.
I maintain project code licenses per file, that is each source includes a license ...
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License Comptatibility with GSuite?
Are websites made with Google Sites compatible with GPL 3.0? A prospective user can create a web site with Google Sites using the web editor, but the HTML output, which may be interprited as the ...
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Linking to libtorch/CUDA from a GPL program
I have modified a GPLv3 program to link to libtorch (part of PyTorch). PyTorch is licensed under the BSD-3 clause license. I would like to convey my changes to the original GPLv3 program and the ...
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FFMPEG License as a separate library
I am currently writing a video project using FFMPEG shared library with other license abiding projects (like libass and freetype2). I have a script that compiles FFMPEG and the other libraries as a ...
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AGPL 3.0 compatibility
I want to use AGPL to licence my project. But I need learn AGPL compatibility with these 3 licences:
Android Software Development Kit License
Fabric Software and Services Agreement
Crashlytics Terms ...
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Can I distribute Boost-licensed code inside a BSD-licensed file?
I have a BSD-licensed piece of code, and I would like to integrate some code licensed under the Boost software license directly in the file, for reasons of portability. The file contains the full BSD ...
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Are there any ways to distribute a program compiled from both CPL and AGPL source code?
GSDJVU is a CPL licensed driver for GhostScript (AGPL). According to DjvuLibre, it is legal to download the source code for both and compile them, but not to redistribute the compiled program due to ...
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gpl-3+aiohttp license integrity
I am working on an aiohttp server that will call python modules or shared object libraries. SOME of those modules or so's might be governed by GPL-3 licensing. The parent aiohttp server that does ...
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Licence and requirements for Open Source cryptographic library usage
i am wondering which conditions apply if i want to use an Open Source cryptographic library embedded in a proprietary software.
The software will be proprietary and shall implement a digital signature ...
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How to implement BSD Licensed library to MIT License project?
Currently, i'm facing a problem with library licensing in web development. I have my web project in MIT license. Now i'm trying to use library(javascript) that using BSD 2 License (Source from Github)....
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Can i use Apache-2.0 in a project licensed as MIT?
This link tells me not to use MIT under my license when redistributing the Apache 2.0 source code.
Then, if Apache 2.0 or GPL source code is not included, only when specified in the header file and ...
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Can a database include both ODbL and CC BY-SA works?
The CC BY-SA license is incompatible with the ODbL license.
The confusing thing about ODbL is that it seems to pertain to entire databases, rather than to individual works.
Is it possible then to have ...
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clarify R licenses: machine learning models, developed with R in Azure, possible for commercial use?
i want to estimate machine learning models with R and i need to use it in a production environment, i'll work with Azure Datascience Virtual Machine or Azure Machine Learning.
If i use , for ex., ...
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GPL v3 library used in custom built Kafka Connector wrapper
Imagine, there is communication library to specialized communication protocol to end devices licensed by GPL v3 and implemented for JVM. Then I implement specialized Kafka Connector on top of this ...
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.RDS files and GPL license in R
We are building an application that uses machine learning to predict certain parameters and use them in an optimization algorithm afterwards.
We are not building the front-end in R neither the back-...
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ZHST_IMS_Package license issue
The ZHST_IMS_Package 1.0.0 was installed through Application insights nugget packages. As part of black duck scan found this has issue with license and reported as "License Not Found".
I found this ...
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How do you manage provenance metadata and licence conditions for the data and software packages you use in your research?
Background: I asked this question to a statistical research audience on CrossValidated but was suggested that here might be more appropriate, so re-posting; keen for any tips!
In spatial analysis (...
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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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How to correctly handle software licenses?(code under GPL3 making use of code under Apache2)
I'm new to work in software developing by myself and I'm not sure what is the correct way to handle licenses, so far I'm working on a java project using maven (google json simple and junit pugins).
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What software licenses can be used in a CC BY-SA 3.0 work?
I'd like to know what kind of licensed software (e.g. MIT, Apache, GPL) that I can use in such a project without any sort of violation. If this were 4.0, it'd be fairly straightforward as that has ...
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