Questions tagged [license-notice]
For questions about the content and placement of license, copyright, and disclaimers
17 questions from the last 365 days
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How to Comply With MIT Licensed SVG In Print
I have found an MIT licensed SVG that I wish to use in print, for instance a business card.
The relevant part of the MIT license:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be ...
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Can I use a phrasal verb definition from a certain dictionary in my mobile app? [closed]
Disclaimer: I know only some high-level concepts of licensing. I've seen a similar question: Using Wiktionary data in mobile app, but it doesn't fully answer my question.
I consider to publish an iOS ...
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CERN-OHL-P 2.0: include notices in proprietary project
CERN-OHL-P 2.0 requires to keep notices when modifying Covered Source:
3.3 You may Convey modified Covered Source (with the effect that You shall
also become a Licensor) provided that You:
a) retain ...
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Is the license name and the URL to full license text sufficient for distributed software?
I have a software bundle that contains compiled executables under various free software licenses.
Is it safe to not include the full license text for every piece of software in the bundle, but just ...
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Does adding license headers to files without existing headers count as my modification to an Apache 2.0-licensed project?
I recently used a starter template project for an API that is under the Apache 2.0 License, where the project doesn't have a NOTICE file and individual files in that project don't have their own ...
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Is the NuGet license type 'expression' broken?
NuGet packages, for the purpose of telegraphing the license of a package,
have - or rather should have used to - the field <licenseUrl> that could link to a
license for the package.
licenseUrl ...
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Splitting LGPL License into certain folders/files
So my project tree is
Root:
Client
Java
Server
C
LICENCE
README.md
and I licensed it under LGPL v2.1, so my question is, Is it possible to put the LICENCE inside Server/C and inside Client/Java (...
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My app uses multiple 3rd party libraries. How can I handle their licensing obligations?
Let's say my application is main.py.
And it imports 3 libraries and uses their functions.
Library A is BSD licensed. Library B is MIT lisenced. Library C is Apache 2.0 lisenced.
Which license files do ...
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What is the default license of a project build on top of SpringBoot?
I am from a small private for-profit company, let us call it CompanyA for this example.
We are using a popular java framework called SpringBoot to build our software on top of it.
The license of ...
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AGPLv3 license notice adding to each file
So I have added code licensed under AGPLv3 license to my own project. Licensed my own project under AGPLv3 and noticed that there are no code file with license notice included only AGPLv3 license file....
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Question about AGPLv3. How to state that I modified source code?
So here is what I want to know.
As one Project's code I added to my own uses AGPLv3 license i licensed my own Project as AGPLv3 but there is such a step as "Conveying Modified Source Versions&...
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License header for code licensed as GPL 3 only
The text of the GNU GPL 3 license ends with a section titled "How to Apply These Terms to Your New Programs", which states that you should include a license notice within each source file, ...
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Licensing my project derived from MIT and AGPL-3 licensed projects
So I wish to take some lead in development of my app based on projects that were not active for 4 and 2 years. One of them is MIT licensed and other has AGPL-3 license. If I were to add my own code ...
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How should I include licenses in a standalone binary?
I'm creating a standalone CLI binary to distribute to companies for money. The binary depends on a number of third-party libraries with various licenses (MIT, Apache, BSD, and MPL to be exact). I want ...
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Can one of several heirs of a copyright release it under a Creative Commons license, and if so, how?
Alice created a work and died without publishing it. Bob and Charlie jointly inherited the copyright. All three live(d) in the United States. Bob wants to publish the work under a Creative Commons ...
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Do I put my license/copyright header on top of a permissively-licensed file I found on the internet?
I found a nice Python class on a website devoted to nice Python gists - and on its web page (but not in the source code) it has the author's name and says it is PSF licensed - which wikipedia says is ...
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What are the implications of using a license template as a license?
Some open-source licenses contain a copyright notice at the beginning, and then further down in the license text, refer to "the above copyright notice". When these licenses are stored in ...
