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Is Firefox's about:license non-compliant wrt. MIT and BSD style Licenses?
The Firefox (ref: V 127.0.2 on Windows) License Page about:license diligently lists all potential open source licenses involved.
In an attempt to make this mess shorter, the devs have opted to group ...
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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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Arduino GitHub project - what is the scope of copyright attribution and how to include it?
I'm trying to upload my project to GitHub and have questions regarding license/credit attribution.
My project is an Arduino (specifically NodeMCU ESP8266) project, which mainly includes two external ...
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How to provide attribution when numerous contributors hold copyright
My software depends on and links to a third-party open-source library licensed under the MIT license. No copyright notice is present in the LICENSE file, the README file, or any of the source files. ...
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How to properly attribute other's people work on GitHub?
I have an open source project (under GPL license) that has some parts incorporated from other projects (that use MIT and GPL), and one of the provisions of both of these licenses is The above ...
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How would people be able to credit my open source software that generates HTML?
I am working on an open source project with an MIT license. The project takes markdown and parses it into HTML pages. (I know it's been done before but I was bored) And I'm a little confused on how ...
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Merging parts of another, parallel, fork [MIT]
The situation is following: There is a project (lets call it A), standard MIT licensed but long abandoned. I created a rebranded fork, fully MIT compliant, called B. Another person, lets call him Jack,...
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Several beginner questions about using MIT-licensed code
I recently made this website, hosted on Github. (Repo)**
The website uses multiple MIT-licensed (or similar licenses) 'code':
Several SVG icons from Wikimedia commons (Icon 1, Icon 2, Icon 3).
Code I ...
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License description for repository that uses a template under MIT license
Assume that I use a template repository on GitHub (e.g., https://github.com/actions/typescript-action), make a tool, and publish it on GitHub under MIT license.
However, obviously I need to show the ...
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Is attribution required for server-side usage of MIT-licensed library?
I'm writing an ASP.NET application which is deployed to virtual machines running on Microsoft Azure and customers access using their browser. The virtual machines are under my control and customers ...
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How to show MIT License on Icons
I want to use some icons on some links in the footer of my website, such as these. They are under the MIT license. These icons are files by themselves, so I cannot just add the MIT license at the top ...
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How do I cite MIT licensed software in a research publication?
I have found code provided on GitHub under an MIT license. I have modified the code to be useful for my application. In order to give proper credit to the original author/developer, how can I provide ...
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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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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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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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Using information from MIT licensed code
I'm currently developing an editor that will implement syntax highlighter for a rather specialized language. I had already found a vim highlighting file that I rather liked the style of, and while I ...
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Where would I give credit to an MIT licensed project, in an iOS app?
I would like to include a pod that I found on cocoa pods and its an animation of a button. It is licensed under MIT licence: https://cocoapods.org/pods/DynamicButton
In the licence it states:
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Open source project from an idea at my job
I've recently used https://github.com/ARCANEDEV/SEO-Helper to build a SEO Bundle for Symfony 2.8 at my company.
It was a bit painful as the Symfony standards weren't followed by ARCANEDEV (it's a ...
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MIT license ambiguity about copyright?
I asked this question in softwareengineering.stackexchange.com but it was pointed out to me that it is better suited to be posted here. I deleted the original thread in the other subforum.
So the ...
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Which author/copyright holder "type" is allowed in the MIT license? Pseudonym, Company name, ...?
In many licenses you have to (or can?) state who is the author of the project, which is the one who "owns" the intellectual property (= the copyright holder). In the MIT license it e.g. is said like ...
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Proper way of mentioning credits to other open source tools used in my application
I am planning to publish an open source tool at github under MIT license. This tool itself uses another tool published at codeplex under Ms-Pl license. What is the proper way of giving appropriate ...
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How should I assert copyright when I'm forking an MIT project?
I have an open source software project licensed under MIT.
The MIT License (MIT)
Copyright (c) 2016 Håvard Fossli
Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any ....
I found ...
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How should you put attribution into your project?
When you're copying open source from another project (not simply linking), how should you provide attribution in your source repo? I've copied some things into my code base that are probably not ...
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Merge, rebrand, relicense projects
There are two libraries under MIT, that do the same thing, each with some pros and cons. I'd like to merge them, effectively reworking the public API, but keeping the underlying logic (code). The ...
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Ramifications of the proposed new SE licensing model
Like many other people I read this meta post. Since I don't really understand what is at stake I became confused and worried.
Does this mean that I can legally force any organization to let me see ...
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Relicensing MIT Work [duplicate]
There's a web app released under the MIT license that I am forking. If I were to still keep it under the MIT from what I understand I would change the notice to something like:
Copyright (c) 2015 [...
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How should I re-license the scaffold code for my new application? (it is licensed under MIT)
If you notice the following scaffold starter kit source code is licensed under MIT throughout the code base. Even the configuration file contain a header of MIT licensed by the creator.
Assuming, I ...
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