Questions tagged [license-recommendation]
For questions asking the community to recommend a particular license that meets criteria provided by the future licensor. Any question that seeks to have an open license is allowed, even if the criteria would render it impossible. Questions that ask for proprietary licenses explicitly are off-topic.
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Sharing own software with a restricted group of persons
I am coding a new application. I would like to temporarily share it with a restricted group of persons to only have a feedback about some implemented features.
My application links against some qt (...
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Open source license more viral than GPL/AGPL
I am looking for an open-source license with an enlarged scope of when something is considered a derived work, compared to AGPL. Ideally it should be OSI approved, but following OSI requirements for a ...
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How can I license a project to be as "open" as possible, but deter commercial machine learning models from being trained on outputs?
Are there any licenses or strategies (dual license, etc), that make it difficult to commercialize machine learning (ML) models made from the outputs of a software library? For example this discussion ...
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Weak copyleft LGPL-like license for static linking
To start with, I am aware of " An even lesser LGPL-like license that allows static linking " question, but I believe it was aksed in a weird way and that my question is substantially ...
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Adding autoconverting clause to AGPL?
I was wondering if there is a straightforward way to have AGPL software autoconvert to a BSD-0 license after some arbitrary time (for example, two years), similar to how the BSL works.
I mostly want a ...
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Allow commercial use, but require removal of company name
I'm planning to draft policies for my company. I'd like to release these policies as open source so that others may use them for their own purposes. I don't mind how they use or modify them, but I do ...
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What copyleft license could I use for a program that depends on non-free libraries?
My specific case is to make an open source game using Unreal Engine. I'd like that game to be "copyleft": I give the source code, and anyone can use it to make improved versions of the game, ...
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Looking for the best licensing model [duplicate]
I'm creating a large open source project that I hope will have many contributors. This project is expressly for collaboration and practice on using and creating industry best practices. While this ...
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What happens If a LGPL-licensed shared libraries are dynamically linked to GPL-licensed files of same package?
I'm integrating a component in my commercial software called ABC, in which some part of code is licensed under LGPL and some part it is licensed under GPL. And there are some shared libraries created ...
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Choosing an open source license for my up to now commercial project
I'm about to re-license my desktop application as open source software. For several years now, the application is published and sold under a commercial license. While working on a new version (...
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How do I release code written for a company to the public?
I'm working on a Unity project for a company and, while doing so, I wrote some code that I think would be cool to have it on the internet, free to use.
But I never released something that is owned by ...
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Is it allowed to statically link to a library licensed under Eclipse Public License 2.0 without publishing the source code of linked software?
Let's say I've developed a library and licensed it under EPL 2.0.
If somebody statically links his/her software to my library, is that software considered a derivative/modified work?
Does s/he has to ...
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Choosing a license for a repository of programming course material (LaTeX slides + examples code)
With some colleagues, we have been developing a programming university course over some years, and now we want to make it available to the public as open-source, in the form of a GitLab repository.
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How to license a literate program?
A literate program is a set of of source files each containing a mix of documentation (e.g. as Latex 'code') and code (e.g. as C++ code -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literate_programming). From ...
