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Is “license”: “MIT” in config enough to be a valid license in a software project?
For my case, I have open source projects in Node JS that use the MIT license for which I have only added "MIT" to the license field in the package.json config file. There are no contents of the ...
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Used code from two differnetly licensed projects - which license should I use for mine?
In my project, I have copied and used code from two other projects, one of which is licensed under GPLv3 and the other one has an MIT license.
Which license should I use for my project?
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How to use software published under MIT without copyright notice?
MIT License says:
The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
However, a few repositories do not have any ...
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Opensource license ownership and collaboration
If a person releases their source under some Open source license. And later if another person contributes to the project through a pull request (in Github). Then, does the contributor gets a say if ...
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Should MIT client side code used in Wordpress distributed like GPL?
Each client side code running on user's browser it's a "distribute operation";
WordPress is GPL licensed, and it running MIT licensed Jquery.
1) When a MIT file is included in a GPL software this ...
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What means “distribution” for Open Source licenses (MIT/GPL)?
What means "distribution" for Open Source licenses MIT and GPL?
Is the client side code running on user's browser "distribution" for these licenses?
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If i modify and include a MIT lcensed software in my website, have i to include the license?
If i modify and include a MIT lcensed software in my website (script for functions, no download for users), have i to include the license? Have i to indicate the changes?
Thanks
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What are my license (or giving-credit) obligations regarding open source software?
We're using a number of open source libraries in our software. They all fall under one of the following 3 licenses:
MIT License
Apache License 2.0
BSD 3-Clause License
These are all very liberal ...
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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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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 I move an in-line license to a file?
I am currently using a library that is licensed under MIT.
Each file of the library has a in-line comment containing the standard MIT license text in full length, which is kind of repetitive in my ...
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Change text of original author
I am thinking about using this library: https://github.com/rxi/classic/blob/master/classic.lua
and I have a question regarding the first few lines:
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-- classic
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-- Copyright (c) 2014, rxi
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Single-executable CLI program, does this comply with the MIT license?
I'm making a single-executable CLI program that I plan on distributing with some man pages.
But I can't seem to understand whether or not I can comply with the MIT license by adding an argument (-a ...
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Why doesn't the MIT license have “patent use” permission?
From https://choosealicense.com/licenses/ and https://choosealicense.com/appendix/ I notice that the MIT license doesn't have "patent use" permisson like other popular open source licenses.
What ...
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How do you copyright/license software based on MIT-licensed open source code?
I am a former developer that codes in my spare time for fun and to maintain some level knowledge in the subject. So I found an interesting proof of concept online. I saw the potential to modify it and ...
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Re-implementing MIT licensed software in another language
I have re-implemented a library in Golang which was originally in Python.
The original Python library carries an MIT license, which gives me "without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,...
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With source code lost, can the binary be released as MIT?
I preserve old software by asking copyright owners (often one author) to release the source code under an Open Source License, GPL or MIT. In many cases the source is gone, but the binaries still ...
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Building programs using qmake
Can I use qmake to build Non Qt programs with a closed source or MIT licence?
The c++ code that I'm building does not include any Qt headers or link to any Qt libraries.
The only mention of Qt in ...
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If I translate/port a repository from one programming language to another, do I need to use the license file (Github) from that original project?
If I translate/port a repository from one programming language to another, do I need to use the license file (Github) from that original project? Or can I use my own license file.
I intend to use the ...
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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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Where to show the MIT license for a webpage theme?
I have found 1-2 interesting Jekyll webpage themes that have the MIT license (on http://jekyllthemes.org/).
I want to use an adjusted version of these themes for my webpage and I understand that I ...
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How do I comply with MIT or Apache licenses while making clear that these licenses only apply to the libraries?
I am making a closed source app for my employer. This app uses libraries under MIT and Apache licenses. How do I comply with these licenses in such a way that it is absolutely clear that these ...
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Does reading code and re-implementing the logic, and releasing under your name count as a licensing violation of MIT?
I'm not clear on what counts as a "copy" in the case of code.
If I read your code, that was MIT licensed, implement a similar logic on my own and use no code fragments from the original author, does ...
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Open Source Communication Module with PDF generation
I have a requirement where I need to send html template based emails and also attach some pdf which is dynamically generated from some more templates.
This seems to be the most common requirements of ...
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Are you allowed to use open source content as your own?
Can you simply just take open-souce content and use it as your own?
I have seen this a lot of times.
For example, this tutorial http://slashtutorial.com/rust/ was taken from https://github.com/...
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How do I combine MIT licence with GPL?
In my project there are a few library files that I would like to release under the MIT license. The rest of the project is released under GPL. How can I make it clear to someone who reads one of the ...
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Do I need to provide additional disclaimers when releasing code related to taxes?
I wrote a few scripts to help with doing my US Federal taxes this year. To do things like estimating sales tax and parsing information from 1099 forms. I wanted to post this code on GitHub in case ...
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Is it possible to transfer an MIT license?
Let's say that I have an MIT license on some open source software I created. I understand that with an MIT license, I need to state the license information in certain points of a code. I was wondering ...
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Is the MIT license suitable for documentation?
On choosealicense.com, there's a section that says:
Any open source software license or open license for media (see above) is applicable to software documentation
This implies that the MIT license ...
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What is Proper Attribution for Non-code Resources (Academic papers, etc) in OSS?
What is considered the proper way to attribute or acknowledge non-code non-software resources from which part of a piece of software could be considered to be derived (when intending to release the ...
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Proper place to include the license of a dependency
I'm developing a GPLv3 project, and i need to use both the feather's icon set, licensed with MIT license, and the PyQt5 library with GPL. I don't need to rewrite or extend any content of the these ...
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Is it legal to release an open source piece of malware [closed]
Is it perfectly legal to release an open source botnet registered under the MIT license? I understand that statements such as 'you download this program agreeing everything you do with it is on your ...
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What's the usual procedure when using MIT or BSD-2-Clause licensed source code with something like `<script src="…`, `require(…` or `import …`?
This is not a legal question. It might touch the legal aspects around Open Source licenses but I need general help understanding how they work and what the usual procedure is.
Part 1 of my question: ...
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What does “distribute with full source code” mean in GPL?
I want to use Stanford-nlp in my project to implement some search. But it is under GPL license.
I found the following lines:
"if your company ever make changes to the software and want to distribute ...
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Reproducing all npm package Licenses
I'm about to release a website that uses a lot of open source software. There are likely 30-100 packages, and those probably include more packages. I've made sure none of them are the type of ...
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LGPL-licensed code reuse in MIT-licensed project
I have an MIT-licensed (in plans, currently it's not published) project. And I've found an implementation of the required algorithm in an LGPL-licensed project. Am I allowed to include that code in my ...
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How do the years specified in a copyright statement work?
Given that it is about to be or already is 2018, I now notice I have a few open-source projects licensed with MIT, where each one of them states:
Copyright (c) <years> <name>
Does this ...
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How to legally use Jekyll themes by others?
I realize this may be an extremely basic question, but I'm confused about the legal issues that come with starting a blog and using a theme. I want to use the Clean Blog theme (by BlackrockDigital). ...
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Where to put license for MIT licensed code on website
I'm a freelance web developer building a site for a client. I found some code I'd like to use on CodePen which uses the MIT License. As far as I understand the license, I can use the code freely on my ...
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Can library that took parts of library licensed under GPL with Classpath Exception be licensed under MIT?
I've spotted the library (library M) where developers took some source files from GPL with Classpath Exception licensed library (library G), included them in their project and changed namespaces and ...
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Using OSS of different licenses in MIT-licensed software
If I create a new MIT-licensed OSS project and use other software with different licenses (MIT, GPLv3, no license), what is the best way to create a compliant repository?
We thought of adding a ...
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Is it still necessary to attribute MIT code if it has been modified?
If I take MIT licensed code, modify it, then use the modified code, is it still neccesary to attribute it to the original author?
Does this change if the project using the modified code is licensed ...
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Explanation about open source codes and licences
I need to understand rules that I only read but never understood completely. I'm asking here some clarifications.
I read that GPLv2 licence imposes that a developer, developing a software using codes ...
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can I remove files and folders in a PHP package without violating its license?
Let's say I'm working on a PHP application and I want to integrate some PHP packages like TWIG. Using Composer or some other automated management or code assisting technologies is irrelevant here. All ...
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Can I use BSD / MIT licensed code in a public-domain equivalent project?
As far as I know, the BSD 3-clause and MIT licenses are functionally equivalent.
Can I take BSD/MIT-licensed code and use it in a project which I then release under CC0, the Unlicense, or similar?
(...
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Include library dependencies licenses as well?
Sadly this didn´t really answer my question: When including libraries licenses, do I need to include the libraries' dependencies' licenses too?
If I use Library A which is MIT and Library A ...
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Forking GitHub repository (MIT): what references to the original author should remain intact?
I'll pick one of the most popular React boilerplates as an example here.
Assume I've forked it (the commits history till the fork date remains intact). According to the text of MIT license, the only ...
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Is there any particular reason to license docs with CC BY 4.0 rather than MIT?
MIT license can be used for "software and associated documentation files".
But a few big open source projects licensed under MIT (for example, dotnetcore, reactjs), explicitly use Creative Commons ...
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How does Bootstrap v4 (MIT) deal with contributions made under v3 (Apache 2.0)?
Bootstrap version 4 is under MIT license. Bootstrap version 3 and earlier ones were under Apache license 2.0.
Bootstrap version 4 probably inherits some source code from Bootstrap version 3.
Then, ...
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I am using a MIT licensed module in a closed source consumer device. What are my obligations?
I am working on a piece of embedded software for a consumer device. For a small part of the software, we are using a third-party library that is licensed under the MIT license.
As the MIT license ...
