Questions tagged [multi-licensing]
Works can be released under two (or more) licenses, which may or may not be compatible, giving recipients the choice of which terms they will abide by
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Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code?
Everybody knows that you shouldn't use a CC BY-SA license on your code. Even the Creative Commons folk recommend against it. What I don't know or understand is why. I can't seem to find any ...
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As owner of GPL library, can I break the licensing terms?
As far as I understand, choosing GPL licence for library does not permits use of it in proprietary programs as opposed to LGPL.
So releasing my library (or code classes), I'm forcing people to use ...
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Can I "Override" a licensing policy?
On many sites, especially Stack Overflow, I can't help but notice such amazing code snippets. However, they come with a "catch" designed by the author.
With user contributions being licensed with the ...
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Possibility of non-commercial ‘open-source’ and attribution based licence
I am currently planning to launch an alpha version of the software as a representative of an unregistered company. We (currently I'm the only person on the team) do not have any patents and are not ...
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May someone else apply a license to CC0 material?
Alice licensed her work under CC0 1.0.
May Bob take Alice’s work and publish it under another Creative Commons license (e.g., CC BY-SA)?
If yes, may Bob publish it under his own name (i.e., not ...
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Is it possible to restrict GNU GPLv3 to non-commercial use only?
I've noticed that the jQuery plugin "Fancybox" has a peculiar licensing note in its header:
// Licensed GPLv3 for open source use
// or fancyBox Commercial License for commercial use
//
// http://...
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Under what conditions can someone dual licence existing works?
When software is diffused under an open-source licence I imagine that a project becomes the "intellectual property" of the community.
However, I'm not clear about this answer in that an author agrees ...
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Dual license compatibility
Suppose I place work I publish under two licenses.
If the two have conflicting attributes which property should be used.
Can you specify which properties you want two be applied from the two licenses?...
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What is the way to handle a project that is a mix of software and non-software items?
Our project is partly software, and partly 3d models and images. To me, the language of the MIT license, which specifically refers to software, doesn't really seem applicable to the parts that aren't ...
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Meaning of "and" and "additionally" connectors with two Open Source licenses
[This question is an expansion of the question "Meaning of OFL and GPL" because of
limits on the number of characters in comment-responses].
I am unsure of the meaning of the terms "and" and "...
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Can I use a library that is dual licensed GPL + LGPL as if it was only LGPL?
PaGMO 2 includes both GPL and LGPL in their copyright notices:
Copyright 2017-2018 PaGMO development team
This file is part of the PaGMO library.
The PaGMO library is free software; you can ...
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Do Stack Exchange’s ToS mean that the user-generated content is double-licensed to them?
In the ToS of Stack Exchange sites, under the section Subscriber Content, the first sentence states that my submitted content is licensed (to Stack Exchange) under CC BY-SA 3.0:
You agree that all ...
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Can I apply one license to specific users and another to others?
Suppose I am a developer. I am developing a piece of software. I decide I want to make this code open source. But... I only want developers (or people that will be using the code in other projects) to ...
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Does it make sense to license my content under a more restrictive license if it's licensed CC-BY-SA?
Let's say that I make a post on a Stack Exchange site. That content is owned by me, but I gave the company a perpetual and irrevocable license under Creative Commons Attribution Share Alike 3.0. As ...
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If something is licensed to me under two (Open Source) licences, can I redistribute under only one?
I have modified a particular file (A LaTeX Beamer Template)
The readme says:
The code of the package is dual-license. This means that you can decide which license you wish to use when using the ...
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How to license Stack Overflow contributions as permissive as possible? [duplicate]
Important: this related Meta Stack Exchange post.
Code you post on Stack Overflow is licensed "cc-by-sa 3.0 with attribution required". Now this may pose problems for people wanting to use my ...
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Licence for open-source code which is part of proprietary code?
I've a proprietary program which is using OOP classes which I want to publish as FOSS (only the classes).
Which FOSS compatible license I can choose for the classes which will work with my ...
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License similar to GPL, but allowing to incorporate into the commercial version
Continuing this question:
I want a license L which is generally like GPL, but allows us to do the following:
License our software under both L and a commercial license.
Require that every patch (or ...
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Can my thesis LaTeX source files contents be under GPL v3?
I want to release all the LaTeX source files (*.tex), when I publish my thesis. I do
not want to just release the PDF. So everybody can build my thesis with a LaTeX compiler from its source code. Can ...
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JPEG comment to convey Copyleft Multi-Licenced Copyright Notice
This question is related to Copyleft Multi-Licenced Copyright Notice.
I upload pictures on commons.wikimedia.org and I want to facilitate the reuse but I want derivatives stay "libre". Therefore I ...
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Copyleft Multi-Licenced Copyright Notice
I want to allow any usage/modification/distribution of my work except with the restriction that my work and derivatives must stay "libre".
Therefore I think the right way is to publish my work under ...
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GPL, LGPL or MPL for open source app with closed source Pro flavour
I have had a fairly popular Android business app on Google Play a while now. It is available as a free version and a version with features targeted to bigger businesses.
I am currently in the process ...
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Would a multi-license consisting of all possible non-exclusive licenses work?
Dual licensing is used to maximize compatibility. One requirement is that licenses must be non-exclusive, although they don't have to compatible and as licensee you are free to choose a subset of the ...
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Python package with different licenses per modules, some with GPL: is a global GPL license required?
I'm in a situation a bit similar to this one, but more precisely I developed a Python package with multiple modules. Some of them have dependencies under GPL, therefore "infecting" this specific ...
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Can open and closed source versions of software exist in parallel and can code be ported either way?
Say a vendor has both a community version of their software and a more proprietary one.
How can this be done in licensing terms?
Can code be ported either way?
What are the appropriate practises if ...
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License for Graphics Design Program
I've written a Graphics Design program, with less functionality than Photoshop, but more than MS Paint. I've targeted the application towards teenagers and kids, mainly for educational usages for ...
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Open Source (A)GPL(2|3) but limit resources or business for others without a paid license [duplicate]
I want to release come kind of computation engine as an open source project. For the whole source and usage, I am fine with the content of the GPL but what I want to make sure:
There should be a ...
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Font licensed as GPL *and* OFL ... Can I use under OFL? [duplicate]
I would like the build upon the Libertine Open Fonts Project under SIL OFL 1.1, a permission
that seems to be intended by the authors. However, several issues / irregularities crop
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