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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Is there any license that prohibits copying the code for assignment?
I have written a simple shell in C. I started my work when I had an OS lab. I did this as an assignment. I tried to implement cd, pipe, I/O redirection, background process, jobs, running system ...
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Is there a "free use with advertisement" license?
Is there a license that means free usage of source code or its parts, free use of the product for personal or any commercial purposes, but the license obliges the user to place an advertisement of ...
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Software license for game consoles?
I'm thinking about making my own video games and want them to be open source and on game consoles as well. I know that GPL is not an option because companies like Nintendo and Microsoft don't allow ...
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Streaming coding sessions on Twitch, is it possible to license the code as open-source?
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If I wish to stream some coding/programming sessions on Twitch, is it still possible to license the produced code in some open-source flavor, while still being compatible with Twitch terms-of-...
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Using older versions of licenses in new projects
When creating a new project today, am I allowed to license my software using the older version of licenses such as GPLv2 (vs. GPLv3), or BSD 4 clause (vs BSD 3 clause).
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Am I only allowed to use ...
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License that prohibits attribution on derivatives?
I don't need this but still would be very interested in an answer.
Is there any license in this vein?
© year my name
No warranty
You may distrubute exact copies
You may distribute modified ...
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Software licenses that force contribution back to the original project only for commercial use
Is there a Software licenses that force contribution back to the original project only for commercial use (projects that wants to make money out of it)?.
Another way to phrase the question
People can ...
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License to disallow distribution in closed source software, but allow exceptions made by owner?
Is there a license (similar to the GNU v3 software license) that forbids the usage of an open-source software in closed-source software, but except parties that receive approval by the original owner (...
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Can Qt be used in company project?
I work for a company in which I'm developing a Qt application. So when I install Qt using the online installer it asks me to mark a checkbox saying
I am an individual person not using Qt for any ...
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Mandatory Source Contribution For Open Source Database
I would like to release a specific niche database application as open source.
My only concern is that any potentially beneficial changes to the project are made available to all users of the ...
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Finding right license to support open source community only. GPLv3 too strict, LGPLv3 too permissive
I have created an open source library that is designed to be used by other open source projects; not by end users. Currently it is licensed as GPLv3.
My main goal is that every project that uses my ...
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License for open sourcing software with pending patents
I have a pending patent on my Confidence Coin invention. I shared the code publicly on Github (after I started my application), but I have not added a license yet.
This software is a blockchain ...
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Short open source license that requires mentioning if changes were made
I would like to publish an open source program, but I am not sure which licence I should use. Here are my criteria:
Copying and modifying the source code must be allowed.
The copyright notice and the ...
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Using GLPv3 for open-source library modules that can be extended and linked by closed-source libraries and binaries
I'm developing a pretty big open-source project which will require multiple technology stacks. My hope is that this project will be primarily community-based, which means the community should be able ...
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Can I use the MIT license if I use Font Awesome (SIL OFL)?
I have a project in which I included libraries of:
Bootstrap v3.3.7 (http://getbootstrap.com) Licensed MIT
jQuery v1.11.2 (jquery.org/license) Licensed MIT
jQuery UI v1.11.2 (http://jqueryui.com) ...
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How do I choose a suitable license for my academic software? [closed]
I'm in academia and I think that as a matter of principle, my code should be open source. It's not likely to have a lot of users. It might have none other than myself. I have it published on github, ...
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Is there a license that explicitly exempts AI from all conditions?
Are there any FOSS licenses that explicitly allow the use of the software as AI training data with no restrictions, and explicitly disclaim any copyright interest in the output of the AI?
I'm ...
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A license for a python project with unforseen libraries usage and lots of outside contribution?
I'm not good at legalities and this is my first official project so I have little knowledge of copyrights and licenses. I haven't read a lot of legal documents and only a bit of knowledge about ...
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What open source license allows everything except modification?
There are so many licenses that honestly they are making me dizzy. Here is what I want to do:
require my copyright notice and no-warranty statement.
permit people to use + run my code.
don't permit ...
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Non-commercial licensing recommendation [duplicate]
I am in the process of creating a project that I would like to make open source for the community.
Ideally, I would like to restrict the use of my code to non-commercial use only. Is this possible?
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Is there an existing license that is copy-left by default, but allows use in proprietary software through case-by-case negotiation?
I'm looking for a license which is designed such that anyone can use my code so long as the license they release it under is copy-left. However, I'd also like to be able to license my code out for ...
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Is it legal to monetize from someone else's software?
I was wondering if I copy someone else's software and make some design changes and try to make money from it. Is it legal?
Which licenses provides a facility for that?
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Is AGPLv3 or MPLv2 better for an open-source API meant to be integrated into closed-source customer APIs?
Description:
This open-source code is an API (let's call it X-API), which is meant to be used by businesses running their own closed-source APIs
The goal:
Let other companies/individuals interact ...
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Can the original Author keep his GNU AGPLv3 licensed code private if it is hosted on a server accessible to an entire university?
I'm writing a web app for my University that will be accessible to the entire uni. One of the things I'm negotiating for is to retain the copyright without giving it to the Uni. The Uni on the other ...
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Appropriate copyleft license for translation files
I'm using a GPL license (with an AppStore exception) for my app and CC BY-SA for the images used in the app, as I know the GPL isn't appropriate for artwork.
However, I'm wondering what I should ...
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What are my license obligations if I modify eclipse mosquito for commercial use
I am working for a service company. As per client requirement we need to slightly modify eclipse mosquito source code. It is dual licensed with EPL and EDL. (https://github.com/eclipse/mosquitto/blob/...
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Restrict commercial use to protect users
I have a piece of software that could potentially be modified to provide revenue, but it is not going to be clear where the revenue goes - I want to add a license condition that ensures all users of ...
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Which licenses require that the third-party dependencies used by the licensed software are also open-source?
Some times I step into software that I believe that is fully-open-source, but then I discover that it actually contains a lot of dependencies (either by the same author, or by different authors) for ...
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License of a Linux distribution
I'm helping a medicine student to build a Linux distribution which should include some imaging processing tools. The aim is give to the other students a bootable USB stick to be used for their ...
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License for Windows Forms Application in C++/CLI and MySQL
I have built an application using Windows Forms Desktop Application in C++/CLI, I am also using NuGet Package for MySQL.data as well as I am using MySQL code for the application.
I need to add a ...
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Adding an open source license to a website with licensed images/names
I have made one site and want to publish on GitHub, though this site has copyrighted images and names.
I've searched and found the MPL 2.0 that theoretically will protect this licensed images and ...
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MongoDB community license usage
As MongoDB introduced their own server-side-public-license model for community version I wonder in which use cases community version is allowed to be used in production.
There are different ...
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Choosing the right open source license
My goals for the open-source license is credit for contributions like I get credit for the code I write and I would like if a person shows me a concept of how to do something and I implement it I want ...
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Open Source license for a software implementation of a game for which I don't own IP (on mechanics, design, ..)
I am implementing an online version of a card game. The author and publisher of the game owns the IP, evidently (e.g on mechanics and design).
the game (mechanics) and the graphics are our ...
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Should I add a licence to a Python3 script when putting it on GitHub?
I have written a script on python3. It is fairly simple it converts one biological sequence format of text file to another.
I am adding it to GitHub and was wondering if I should and need add a ...
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Simple permissive license that requires author statement in addition to copyright statement
I created an open source software component which I put under the MIT license. I chose it because I don't like legalese, and this license is about the shortest there is apart from public domain (which ...
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Should my webapp also be AGPL if I use ImageMagick linked with GhostScript?
Should my webapp be licensed as AGPL if it runs ImageMagick linked with GhostScript (which is AGPL)?
Here's a scenario:
A user submits a PDF file.
My webapp receives it and stores it on a HDD.
The ...
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Is BSD-3-Clause Variant compatible with BSD-3-Clause?
My Python package has a dependency of an open-source package with a BSD-3-Clause-LBNL variant license. It seems the only difference between this variant and the original BSD-3-Clause license is the ...
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Choosing License of GitHub Repository
I really don't know much about the licenses. I am working on a project which I might upload on a website. So I have a few questions.
Can someone ever steal my code and commercially use it if I put my ...
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Attempting to understand CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 followup
As a followup to my earlier question, I'm having trouble understanding the section about derivatives.
From About The Licenses concerning CC BY-NC-ND:
This license is the most restrictive of our six ...
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Software vs non software differences
On this website https://choosealicense.com/non-software/#data-media-etc they seem to classify non software as data but can't data be code which in turn would be software? Basically in the open source ...
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Using third-party libraries in my webapp (Python)
I've searched the web for information about this, but haven't found a clear answer, that I understand at least.
I have created an Flask app, which utilizes libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, Scikit ...
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What license should I use with a project that is primarily data?
I have a project that is a resume.
The resume, and the data contained within it are the heart of the project and written in a data format (XML).
There is also, however, a style sheet written in XSLT ...
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Mozilla Public License for core open source modules but proprietary modules?
I have built a framework that has the core modules: module1, module2, module3, module4.
But I have also build module5 that uses the core modules and also derives classes from the module1. I want ...
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Python projects & licensing choice
I have some python projects which I release on GitHub.
Some of them binds actions to some DLLs, and some are purely reinventing the wheel.
I choose MIT license for these kind of projects, then I found ...
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Licensing a small project so that anyone can use/modify it without redistribution
I have created a small project with the primary purpose of demonstrating the use of a Makefile. The file in question may be useful for me in the future, but I don't want to be forced to distribute ...
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Picking a license for library
I'm planning to open-source a server-side Python library from my pet project. It strictly depends on another Python library, which is distributed under the GNU GPL v2. Am I legally correct to put my ...
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Can I use MPL-2 for not being held responsible for software bugs?
I just started my career as an online freelancer and even though I try to do my best I have this constant stress & anxiety about what will happen if there is a huge unwanted issue/bug in my code ...
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Open-source licensing while limiting competitive use
I am writing an R package for my employer which will be used as part of the backend of a proprietary web application. We intend to distribute this under some type of open source license.
If we ...
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A library that is licensed differently on client and server
I am developing an application (Budibase) that will be used to build and host web applications. My application is a Low Code Development Platform. Think Wordpress, except that the output would be a ...
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