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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In a Wikipedia article am I able to insert information licensed with CC BY even though they use a CC BY-SA license?
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While writing an article on Wikipedia I needed to include text that is licensed under a CC-BY license. After a bit of digging I found that Wikipedia uses a CC BY-SA license.
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Can I have one license cover part of a software and another covering the other half?
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Lets say I have a software I have been developing. I am about to release it but I first have to apply some licenses.
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Suppose I want to release part of the software (the code) ...
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Dual license compatibility
Suppose I place work I publish under two licenses.
If the two have conflicting attributes which property should be used.
Can you specify which properties you want two be applied from the two licenses?...
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Are permissive licenses (MIT/BSD/zlib) compatible with CC-BY?
Permissive licenses like MIT only require that you include the license text if you redistribute.
CC licenses that have the BY part require that the original authors are attributed, but in flexible ...
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Can I copy-paste a snippet from Stack Overflow into my GNU-GPL project?
I have found on Stack Overflow a 10-lines block of code that does exactly what I want.
There is no license information in the post nor on the answerer's profile page, so the CC BY-SA 3.0 license of ...
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How can I determine if two open source licenses are compatible with each other?
Given two open source projects, each with different licenses, are there metrics or resources I can use to determine if it is legitimate to copy code from one of the projects to the other?
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