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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Can I be accused of using MIT library in my codebase that internally depends on library not compatible with MIT?
In general, when I make my code dependent on library, do I have to check its dependencies licenses or library license is the only one to be checked on my side?
Can I be assused of using MIT library ...
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What does it mean to say two licenses are compatible?
If license A is compatible with license B, does it mean that one can combine code from those two and should be able to release combination under license B?
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Is it just symmetric like 'A is ...
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Is LGPL compatible with GPLv3?
If I have a project using LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License), would I be able to use within it another component which is under GPLv3?
Is there any site where I can see all the compatible ...
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What is the OpenChain project?
Many MNCs like Facebook, Uber, Google and now Microsoft have joined the OpenChain Project, but what's it all about? I think it has something to do with FOSS licenses, but based on the material on ...
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Can your MIT library use an LGPL library?
If you use a library with LGPL 2.1 license (e.g., PHPMailer) in your also open source library, can you release your library as MIT license if you didn't actually modify PHPMailer?
E.g., All you did ...
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Publishing my Node.js library/framework under the GPL
I'm currently working on my Node.js library/framework. I would like to eventually publish it as FOSS software, but I would like to hinder people who change/fork my code from not giving their changes ...
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Are software licenses version-specific?
When you put a license in your software, is it bound to all the versions of your software, or only a specific version?
If I have licensed my software version 1 under license A, and then I developed ...
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Effect of 'download separately' on GPL linking
Suppose I have Java jar-files which I provide to my customers under a commercial closed-source license. But my jar-files depend on a few jar-files released under the GPLv2 (without any special GNU ...
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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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Compatibility of RPL (Reciprocal Public License) with other licenses
I have found a library that I would like to use in my project "as-is", but it is licensed under the Reciprocal Public License. As far as I understand it, you have to make your source code using that ...
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Can I take MIT licensed code and distribute it under BSD?
There is django-auth-kerberos (MIT) which I want to cherry-pick as initial implementation and include+modify as a plugin to python-social-auth/social-core (BSD). Does the MIT license permit this? Are ...
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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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FPDF & GPLv2 & distributing changed code
Whipped up some demo code for a proof of concept I needed. Used FPDM which states as its license "FPDF". The FPDF license seems Free to me -
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any ...
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How could I copyleft a document that contains a substantial amount of both code and prose?
I am writing a document in LaTeX that contains large sections of Python code and output. Typically, I like to license my writing under CC BY-SA 4.0 and my code under GPLv3. I have already placed a CC ...
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How the big open source firm guarantees their rights [closed]
How big open source companies (Mozilla, Apache, Mysql) enforce their rights for their published code as open source.
Take the case of Mozilla, which has invested in the development of its source code,...
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Who owns the rights to a logo contributed to an open-source project?
I recently designed a logo for an MIT-licensed open-source project.
That same open-source project has now launched a commercial offering under the same name (just using a .com instead of .org) domain,...
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Atlaskit in commercial projects
I found this amazing project https://atlaskit.atlassian.com/. But after visit some pages about license issues I have a lot of confussion. Can I use Atlaskit in comercial projects and customize the ...
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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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MIT-licensed project with CC-BY-SA dependency
I have a project (code) that I am wanting to license as MIT. It has a few dependencies, mostly assets (icons and images). Some dependencies are MIT and I include their licenses in the source, but a ...
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Can I "upgrade" the version of CC BY-SA from 3.0 to 4.0 in my modification?
What I'm doing:
I'm adapting a work licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Unported license to a different language.
I'm indicating the original work and its license.
I'm indicating that I have made changes to ...
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What license version should I use for an open-source PyQt5 application on GitHub
On the Riverbank License FAQ for PyQt5 it specifies that PyQt5 is under the license GPL. I'm not sure whether I should use GPLv1, GPLv2 or GPLv3.
What license should I choose and it is MIT compatible?...
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How should I license my project if it can install GPL-based plugins?
I'm developing a software which has two parts, kernel and plugins, their code are completely separated. Here's the question:
Some of the plugins should be GPL based, as they invoked GPL code.
The ...
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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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Does using an AGPLv3-licensed library prevent me from dual-licensing my own source code?
I wrote some software (a simple command-line utility) and released the source code under the following zlib-style open source license:
Permission is granted to anyone to use this software for any ...
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Third-party component licensing obligations, usage and obligations scale
I'm not sure if this question makes sense here although in my point of view it does. Otherwise I would be happy to post it in the right SO.
Scope
I would like to rise a few scenarios concerning ...
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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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Can I combine GPLv2 and BSD-3-Clause code and keep the BSD permissions?
I want to take some GPLv2 licensed code written by someone else and add code with a BSD-3-Clause license, originally written by someone else. This BSD-code has been modified by me to add some ...
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I modified and used GPL2 Code in my Apache 2 Open Source Project - can my Project be used commercially, closed source?
I wrote a library in Java for Bcrypt. Bcrypt's OpenBSD implementation uses a exotic flavour of the standard RFC Base64 encoding. Since there are no standard implementations for this, I modified (and ...
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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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Microsoft Public License and Mozilla Public License v2: A proper license for the binary form compiled from mixed source code by these two licenses
If a binary form is built from some source files licensed under Mozilla Public License mixed with some source files licensed under Microsoft Public License, what would be a proper license for it?
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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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Is License Zero compatible with other open source licenses like GNU, MIT or BSD licenses for example?
I am currently developing a small open source project and would like to make sure I got the licensing right. I am pretty new to the open source model. I have benefited from it on a personal level for ...
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Does Stack Exchange disallow me to use posted contents in an Apache 2.0 licensed project?
Content posted on Stack Exchange sites like Stack Overflow or Electrical Engineering are CC-BY-SA 3.0 licensed.
User contributions licensed under cc-by-sa 3.0
See the footer of any SE site:
As ...
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Take portion of MIT license library, and redistribute in new library
I am currently writing a java library that I intend to release under MIT license.
Right now I have drawn on another MIT license library.
I would like to only use a couple source files/classes from ...
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when using AngularJS can I gpl code that only I have written?
I have a simple chat server/client app, written in PHP (server side, 100% my own code) and AngularJS. The process for Angular development typically brings in many libraries with various licenses. Of ...
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Can I modify an open source license to require that I be notified?
I often use the MIT license for my projects.
But recently I've had the thought that I really would like to be notified if someone forked my software, whether it's for personal use, released or not I ...
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Can GPL with linking exception be linked with GPL and non-GPL simultaneously?
Let's say I have:
A GPL module with linking exception.
A non-GPL module.
A pure-GPL module.
I know that module 1 can be linked with module 2.
My questions are:
Can I link module 1 with module 3? ...
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Having a mixed license repository with GPL and non GPL code
I have some code that I would like to integrate with a GPL licensed piece of code, my code is licensed BSD. If absolutely necessary I could license everything GPL, but if possible I would prefer to ...
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Does the android license allow handset manufacturers to build an OS that is proprietary?
Does the Android license, being Apache license, permit others to develop their own versions of Android and license them as proprietary? As far as I understand, the Linux kernel on which Android is ...
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Bundling GCC along with my GPLv2 project
Is it legal to bundle the GCC cross-compiler (tar.bz2 file) along with a GPL v2 licensed ARMv4T processor core on Github? The compiler will extracted during simulations to compile C code for the core ...
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Can I post code examples with GPL software on Stack Overflow?
Suppose there is a Python library called g which is licensed under GPL v2.0 (or v3.0). Suppose further that the library is sufficiently complex that it contains some C/C++ component(s) that are ...
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Does this addition change the BSD 3-clause license?
I work for a group at our educational institution that licenses its software with a license that is verbatim the BSD 3-clause license with one sentence added under the copyright year/holder line. The ...
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Query on distributing Application under Apache 2.0 license which dynamically links with LGPL2.1 shared libraries
I'm writing some C++ code which I might eventually like to release under an Apache v2.0 license.
I'm looking to build the application linking to some of the LGPL v2.1-licensed shared libraries from ...
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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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Are the Artistic Licence 1.0 and the zlib Licence compatible with one another for distributing sources?
The open-source, community-maintained game Simutrans uses the Artistic Licence 1.0 (AL). I know many people regard this as a poor choice, but the core of the game was written as someone's spare time ...
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AGPL/LGPL licensed app usage in proprietary software
I have software with proprietary license. For some reasons I need an AGPL library (DLL). So, for including the AGPL licensed application (To manage license terms) I am using the following methods (I ...
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Can I include Jenny Everywhere in a licensed work?
Jenny Everywhere is an "open source" character made before there were Creative Commons licenses. When including her in a work you are supposed to include the Jenny Everywhere Paragraph:
The ...
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Can I use code from an LGPL v2 licenced project in a BSD 3-clause licenced project?
There is a BSD 3-clause open source project I would like to contribute to.
The code I would like to contribute is code that I do not own from an open source library released under the LGPL version 2.
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How is the FreeBSD project able to legally distribute GPLv2 software?
FreeBSD publishes "ports" (FreeBSD's term for packages) of software covered by the GPLv2, such as MySQL 5.6.
The GPLv2 states:
You must cause any work that you distribute or publish, that in whole ...
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Which license does psycopg2 exactly use
using psycopg2 of version 2.2.2
the LGPL as LICENSE file declares, or the item in module setup.py. even in this module, there are two different license:
License :: OSI Approved :: GNU Lesser General ...
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