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How do I resolve license terms conflict when forking?
A project I would like to fork clearly states that it is released under the MIT license terms and includes the relevant LICENSE file. Separately, it also has a line in its CONTRIBUTING file that ...
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Best practices for relicensing what was once a derivative work
I forked a project which had the MIT license. I made substantial changes to it, rewriting it in a different language (from C++ to C) and now only a few small vestiges of the original are left in the ...
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Forking .NET library code (MIT license), how to treat individual file header?
I'm aware MIT license is permissive, I would still like to ask/verify how to proceed with forking code from .NET runtime libraries.
Reason to fork: in my specific case, code I'm interested in is ...
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How is the wow.js fork free, while the original project is not free?
I searched for a library to manage browser scrolling. I came upon https://wowjs.uk/.
If you look at the bottom, it says it's free, and on its GitHub page the license is MIT.
However, it's a project ...
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Can I change the license of a forked project from LGPLv3 to MIT?
I have forked a project with LGPLv3 license and I did there a lot of changes.
Can I distribute a new version under the MIT license?
Or only the possibility is to write the code from "scratch"?
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Can I change the license of a forked project to the MIT if the license of the parent project has changed from the GPL to the MIT?
Some time ago I have forked a project on the GitHub that used the GNU GPL v3 license. So I also had to use the GPL license in my fork.
Recently, the author of the original project changed license to ...
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Should I use my own license in a fork of another GitHub repository, which I've revamped completely?
Background
I am the owner of an open-source theme for Hugo named hugo-dream-plus which, as the name implies, is an upgraded version of hugo-theme-dream.
Note that hugo-theme-dream is licensed ...
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Fork maintain and distribute a MIT project
Given a project which is under MIT, has been archived, can it be forked, restarted the dev and be redistributed/renamed?
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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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How should I continue work on an abandoned open source project?
I've found an open source project (MIT-licensed) that I really loved the idea and the project code base itself, however it seems to be abandoned and people are doing their own forks from it.
I did ...
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GitHub source to npm js module set author correctly
I use Arboreal library in my new project, I am made some changes and now working to change it to npm module and use Grunt, because it not available from npm.
But I have a problem, when I start ...
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