Questions tagged [source-code]
Source Code is a human-readable collection of instructions in a programming language used to produce a computer program.
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Can CC-BY-SA code be removed from a larger code base and not have the remaining code bear the CC-BY-SA license?
My understanding of the CC-BY-SA is that if you use a snippet of CC-BY-SA code in a larger project, not only must you reveal the source code of your entire project, but you must also brand the entire ...
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Can I accept donations under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0?
There is a repository of code that I would like to use to run a website. The code is under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license, as the ...
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Open source program - commercial compiler?
If a program is licensed under GPL, I have the right to receive the source code along with the binary.
But what if only commercial (non-free) compilers exist to compile the code?
This would make it ...
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License for JavaScript which doesn't permit minification? [closed]
I'm writing a JavaScript library and am wondering how I could license it such that developers/user:
must include the license (or a link to it)
can't minify the source code, but must include it as-is
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copyrights when learning from licensed code and then applying that knowledge to write your own code
When learning from different sources, some of which license their code, is re-applying those techniques and/or knowledge in my own projects considered copyright infringement
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Is it a GPL violation to provide source code in a format that can only be opened or "compiled" with non-free software?
Looking through the GPL FAQ, there is the question of if you can use the GPL license for non-software products, as long as it is clear what constitutes the source code. Of course, that does not mean ...
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Does modified server code, used in public website development, which is originally available under GPL2 have to be released to the public?
To be precise, I am referring to MySql source code which is available under GPL2. I want to make certain modifications in the code which is actually for some custom requirement.
The modified MySql ...
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As author of AGPL / GPL project, do I need to keep previous versions, or only current one?
As author of AGPL / GPL project, do I need to keep previous versions, or only current one?
For example I made and published 50 versions of the project (via git). Can I delete previous modifications ...
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Is data part of corresponding source for GPL 3?
The GPL3 defines correspond source as the following:
The “Corresponding Source” for a work in object code form means all the source code needed to generate, install, and (for an executable work) run ...
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Are Source-code-based Open Educational Resources and CC-Licenses Incompatible?
For my post, I assume that for software developers or authors of educational texts, an important part of choosing the proper license for their work is attribution: as the original author, I would want ...
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API source code has a dependency with BSD license
I have an API that I use for commercial purposes. I find out today that I have dependencies with licence types: BSD (3-Clause), BSD, Apache, and MIT.
I am confused as the BSD (3-Clause) license states ...
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Structuring C libraries [closed]
In the past years, I wrote much C source code, parts of which might also be useful to others. So I would like to restructure this code in a way such that it makes sense to publish it on Github and ...
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MIT License technicalities and compatibility with Apache 2.0
I'm working on a FOSS project and would very much prefer to release it under MIT license.
To consider, it is a C program, using a MIT licensed library, a MIT licensed executable packaged in the files, ...
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Is the PDF output of LaTeX code licensed under GPLv3 also covered?
I have seen the similar question here Does "the GPL doesn't cover the ouput of a program" also apply if...... However, I think the use of LaTex to write a book with code examples that were ...
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Why exactly is NirSoft's software not open source? [closed]
Apologies if this type of question isn't allowed here, but I am quite curious about this.
If you don't know, NirSoft is some sort of dev that has created a lot of software for use on Windows primarily....
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Consequences of html files being under GPL license
This is about consequences of html files being under GPL license (v2 or v3).
I am aware that it is not recommended to apply the GPL license to documentation. However, a typical use case is that a blog ...
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coding rules in the linux kernel
A rumor states that some person perhaps named Arpan Mukherjee has contributed some coding rules inside Linux kernel. If you did met that person, please tell (e.g. by email to [email protected])
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Can I sell an Electron application that use a library under Eclipse Public License 1.0 without disclosing the source code of the entire app?
I want to sell an Electron desktop application that uses a JS library under the Eclipse Public License 1.0 license. One of the conditions is to "disclose source".
It's not totally clear to ...
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How to give attribution to media that is used in game
I downloaded a audio clip licensed under Attribution 3.0 (it literally just said "license: Attribution 3.0"). I am using this in a JavaScript game. Where should the attribution go? Can I do ...
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I accidentally left a crude, personally-insulting debug print line in a public pull request
It was left there for four hours before I discovered it. Obviously, I fixed that with a force push.
What else can I (or should I) do?
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Can I distribute a LGPLv2.1 derivative work whose source code doesn't compile?
Section 4 of the LGPLv2.1 gives me permission to distribute a "work based on the Library" in object code form, provided that I also distribute "complete corresponding machine-readable ...
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If I use a mobile app that fetches data from a website under GPLv2+ is the app also under GPL?
I am currently programming a mobile app that is not under the GPL.
However, the mobile app correspond with a website that is under GPL Version 2 or higher. In my case the mobiel app send request via ...
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Can I sell UNMODIFIED Open source software without providing the actual source code?
Since everyone can sell open source software, modified or unmodified, at any price, under GPL and MPL as long as I know, can I do it without providing the source code since the recipients are just &...
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Do you have to be mark the changes when modifying code under MIT, Apache2.0 or BSD?
I'm currently programming a Flutter mobile app and a website.
I use code from the MIT license on the website and the app. In the app I also use code under the Apache 2.0 license and the BSD 3 clause.
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google_font license (Apache2.0) has no Copyright what to do?
I'm currently programming an app with flutter and have already listed all the licenses I use from the packages on an individual license page in the Settings.
I also used the google_font package.
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What counts as derivative work in GPL-3.0?
So there's this app which is licensed under GPL-3.0 and there is a piece of code in that application that I like to use.
My app is not by any way a copy/modification of the this app. Since the two ...
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The official node.js deb package repository has no source packages, is it a license breach?
Recently I tried to download the official node.js source debian packages, as described here.
For my largest surprise, their source repositories are simply empty (although they are part of their ...
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Explicit linkage of GCC STL source code in end user's code - GPLv3 + GCC runtime exception
My question is related to GPLv3 and GCC runtime exception. I need to include GCC source code in my project.
I am an author of an embedded library that is intended to be built using GCC C++ compiler ...
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What counts as disclosing source for software licenses?
MPL v2, GPL v3 and other licenses alike require giving users access to source code. Having read both licenses, I did not come across specific examples of how to disclose source code, so my question is ...
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Choosing a license in Arduino environment
I wrote a C++ library for Arduino. The source code have the following specificities:
it includes headers, uses functions, macros, and structures/classes (and their methods) from LGPL libraries (...
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Call GPL functionality from non-GPL interpreted code
I have code written in R, an interpreted language. The R interpreter and most R libraries are under the GPL. What are the limits upon my code, if I want to distribute it while keeping it proprietary ...
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How to reuse code in GitHub without passing other code as mine?
I'm doing my first real project on Github (in Python) and I'm using functions from two other repos (which I'll call foo and bar) as well as rewriting some of their modules.
I have two options.
Option ...
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does anyone know the location of Oracle's 3 different berkeley db source code repositories? [closed]
The Oracle corporation states that their 3 Berkeley DB family products Berkeley DB, Berkeley DB Java Edition and Berkeley DB XML are each offered under the OSS Affero General Public License. I have to ...
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Is the entire beta/release candidate process of open source projects mostly just "for show"?
This risks offending some. I don't mean to. I'm seriously wondering about this. And it's not at all specifically about PHP; it's just that this is such a major, critical software project which is ...
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Is a software open source if its source code is published by its copyright owner but cannot be used without a commercial license? [duplicate]
Suppose I wrote a commercial program, and I publish its complete source code on my website. I retain all rights to the source code. No one gets any distribution or usage rights. They only have the ...
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Transpiled Source-Code License & Copyright Holder
Can Transpiled Output Source-Code Have Different License And Different Copyright Holder Than Input Source-Code ?
Prj-A──>─┬─>Prj-TP──>────┬─>Prj-┐
(Apache) │(Python-to-C++)│ TP │
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What license can I use for source code in an (e)book, that does not restrict binary distribution?
I'm writing an eBook (perhaps to be published physically one day) on the topic of programming. As such, it contains many coding samples. I want to expressly allow readers to copy the source code of ...
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Is Google's Chrome web browser truly open source?
I have been trying to understand if Google's Chrome web browser is truly open source. Some people claim that it is, while others claim that it integrates binary blobs for which the source is ...
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Are there examples of the free software which are available to run and copy as gratis but source code is being sold?
Think of the software which is being distributed in following way:
Available to download gratis and giving the freedom to run the software for any purpose as you wish, the freedom to redistribute ...
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NAS vendor modified rsync with own options; can I ask for the source code?
My NAS has an app which includes a modified version of rsync version 3.1.3 with additional options:
--XXXX-mode=mode 0:Normal, 1:XXXXXX, 2:USB copy 3:HD copy USB
--check-dest ...
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Do I need to include the licence for part of a program, which I have modified?
The X window manager dwm is designed to be customised by copying its default configuration config.def.h (which is supplied, along with the program's source code, under the MIT/X consortium licence) ...
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License of code generated by a code generator
I am wondering under what license the code generated by a code generator that generates code from conditional code templates would fall under.
Would it be possible to release the generator's source ...
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Dependencies installed via package managers
Is there any difference to provide for instance a npm package.json or to provide all the packages source code in the source code repository of the software project? What's the impact if the project ...
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Clarification on using FFmpeg in an open source app
Can someone please clarify the legality of bundling and using the full version of FFmpeg (with included libx264 and libx265 and other gpl codecs) in an open source app.
I don't want to modify ...
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How prohibitive is this Intel copyright clause in Microsoft Windows SDK sources?
We have an open source project going on Github and so far, have been able to comply with all licensing terms and conditions of libraries used, to the best of our knowledge.
Today when debugging, I ...
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Should I include .vcxproj files with open source C++ projects?
I am working on developing some libraries in C++, and I was wondering whether I should include my .vcxproj files that Visual Studio creates in my project's GitHub repository.
Thanks!
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Open source software: How do I know whether it uses the actual code? [duplicate]
Because of the current debate about tracking and privacy regarding the new Corona apps, I'd like to know in general, if an app or software really uses solely the code that it claims to be build on if ...
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Distributing my own software under Apache License 2.0 - should I distribute source code?
I have created my own computer application and I wanted to use Apache License 2.0 to license it.
Can I distribute only binary form of my application without source code?
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Can I have the source code of my Python/C++ project under MIT/BSD/Apache2.0 and its PyPI binary wheel under GPLv2?
I am trying to find how to license my open source project, but after having spent a few hours Googling around, my head started to hurt! Instead of asking a million of questions about different ...
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MIT-licensed app without the source code
There is one very cool app on GitHub, under the MIT license. However, for some reason, the author has not published the source code, only binaries.
Is it allowed under the MIT license to provide ...
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