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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Is it allowed to use web APIs exposed in open-source code?
I often find web projects on GitHub where the author has included their private web API in the code. Is it reasonable to use the author's publicly available web API from the perspective of community ...
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NuGet and LGPL libraries
We're creating software written on the .NET platform.
As such, we're obviously heavily reliant on the NuGet package manager.
Some of these packages are LGPL (2.1, 3) licensed. As this other question ...
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Is it legal to reverse engineer source from an Apache-2.0 licensed binary, and redistribute that source?
I've recently discovered a tool that is distributed binary-only under the Apache-2.0 license. The authors are clear and explicit that the tool is not "open source" (there is no source code ...
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How to open-source code for an ebook-style iOS Qt app but retain control of the content? [duplicate]
Years ago (whenever Qt 5.7 was current), as a contractor I developed a closed source tablet app for a company with (at the time) a commercial license for Qt (they assigned me a license seat). The app ...
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Hypothetical: FOSS License for Compiler with Ken Thompson's "Trusting Trust" backdoor
About a year ago, I made a modified copy of the Tiny C Compiler, which is licensed under LGPL-2.1. Using the techniques described in Ken Thompson's talk and paper titled "Reflections on Trusting ...
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Using a FOSS license for binaries created in a hex editor
For about a year and a half, I have been working on a creating series of minimal ELF executables that print terminal control escape sequences to clear the screen. My workflow is a bit backwards - ...
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Why don't people want to pay/donate for my software?
Apologies if this is no the correct forum for my question - it looked like good fit though!
I have some software ( www.rgraph.net ) that I used to sell - thus it was commercial. This was OK for a few ...
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