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I'm planning to start an MIT licensed project for a Web Server like Apache and Nginx, but primarily targeting the Windows Platform. Those that don't understand opensource are calling me crazy to do ...

I know that there is ton of similar question but all questions are different cases. I want to use in my program (closed source code) binary (GPL v3) which is used by execute it with parameters and ...

I have a developed a Book using outputs from parts of code from a MIT licence repository. were would I show or put the copyright licence? on the product? or create a website? Or because it is not ...

Does using an unmodified AGPLv3 Dovecot plugin on a public mail service require open sourcing the website or application code used to manage the keys in the database? Dovecot retrieves the database ...

I am trying to add some details to the forked project and so i like to pull it to the main project i am searching the edit icon on ht page of GitHub project and i have seen this instruction but i can ...

The name would suggest it's not FOSS, but source available, which is a pretty low bar. But when I read about it, they seem to suggest that it's really only source available for specific use cases ...

I've scraped tonnes of sites. I'm making these datasets for public use. I've been using GPL-v3 license for other software tasks but I don't know what license should I put for datasets. I prefer a ...

I distribute my software for free, under the MIT licence. This says there is no warranty, but in some jurisdictions there is a mandatory warranty https://www.accc.gov.au/business/treating-customers-...

Suppose my project A is licensed under AGPL v3. Now I choose to include stuff (a filter list actually) from different sources, which are licensed under GPLv2, CC-BY 4.0, and I have combined them in a ...

My closed-source java project uses dependencies with Apache License (Apache Commons etc.). The license permits it fully to my understanding. The problem is, that because of some technical decisions, ...

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 ...

I have an MIT licensed project and I want to use a BSD-3 library as a package. The BSD-3 library will only be used for implementation purposes, so the users of the MIT project will not be able to use ...

I want to package a piece of software which only states its licence through a file called LICENSE in its repository. Said file contains the GPL 3.0 verbatim. What isn't clear is whether this means &...

Just wanted to understand the licensing part of WSO2 products. it says it is fully open source but when you go to download the product it asks to compulsory accept WSO2 sofware license. When you read ...

We have a large proprietary application, a portion of which is a collection of microservers written in Go. We're considering the following: Write a Go microserver, with a GPL license, on top of a ...

I am building a marketing website using React and the ecosystem around it (Webpack, Babel, etc.). The site is shipped as a minified client-side bundle. NPM tells me there are a gazillion dependencies ...

I have made a python library that imports an LGPL licensed python library. My library does not modify the LGPL library, but it cannot operate without the import. Do I have to distribute the LGPL ...

I have made a python library that imports an LGPL licensed python library. My library does not modify the LGPL library, but it cannot operate without the import. Is my library a "combined work&...

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 ...

I wrote a Python script (a .py file) that I'd like to publish and license correctly. My script imports numpy (3-clause BSD) matplotlib.pyplot (Matplotlib license [BSD-compatible]) os and argparse (...

Is it possible to record a video using a font under OFL and not give attriution?

What software language was this now infamous voting software written in? If for example it was written in Python which is open source could it be easily reversed engineered so that we could discover ...

If I license my project with MIT-license, could someone: fork the project and distribute the binaries as a paid software just have a quote of my original license in the Help > About dialog box, as ...

Up until recently I thought that copyleft supporters totally reject the concepts of copyright and content licensing but now I know that they don't totally reject these and their main goal is to ...

The CC0 license is a copyright license that does not grant trademark or patent rights. So to make a trademark public domain there would have to be a separate license (which does not grant copyright or ...

If I make a software that generates code like a website creator can I automatically assign a lisence to it with copyright held by some person?Basically can a software generate code and then lisence it ...

My intention I’d like to write a desktop GUI program using Qt (which is itself is licensed under GPL) that interfaces a REST API and I want to use a strong copyleft license, preferably GPLv3. (I use ...

I work on a third-party open source project (partly GPL 3, partly Apache 2). I don't want to disclose my changes right away (but publish them in the future). Is it legal to require a hired worker whom ...

I have a software that uses some MIT and Apache licenses. The source code is not open source and all the third-party software is downloaded from Nuget as a reference (I'm not including the source code ...

"Non-commercial use" could mean two different things: "Don't use the software in a commercial/business context, but only for personal use (i.e. at home)" "In the case you ...

NOTICE: Not A duplicate of Am I allowed to add additional copyright on modified code that originally the FSF released under GPLv3: The previous question answered if I'm allowed to copyright ...

I am attempting to write a Hobbyist OS and found that the CuteOS project is very useful for reference and libraries. The only issue is: it's under the GPLv2, and from my understanding if you use a ...

I've ported type_traits from GCC to AVR-GCC with some major modifications to the code structure, style, and used some boost implementations along with some of my own implementations and would like to ...

Where can I find the GPLv2 license text in Ubuntu 20.04?

I ported a MATLAB repository to Python, with former having this two clause BSD License reading: Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the ...

The AGPL demands we must provide a copy of AGPL code we run online.If someone makes online virtual machine service and someone runs AGPL software on it is the online VM provider obliged to follow AGPL ...

Here is a program released through GPLv3 (https://gitee.com/projectxero/cadroid). I know that if I use a GPLv3 library, then my program will also be released under GPLv3. But I don't use this program ...

so I've made an app using a popular library called OpenCV (https://opencv.org/license/) Its built on android and with the version I'm using it states that the licensing is: OpenCV 4.5.0 and higher ...

Consider a case when in a software project the 3rd party source code is placed in between #if 0 ... #endif (and hence, is not compiled). How does this affect the legal aspect (ex. license selection) ...

We have developed a free app that helps emergency doctors with resuscitation procedures, which can be used completely free of charge (also no ads, no data selling, nothing). We are now looking for a ...

I had developed a Java application which is connected to MySQL Workbench by using mysql-connector-java-8.0.21.jar file. When I deploy the project and send source code to the client he says that: The ...

I had developed a Java application which is connected to MySQL Workbench by using mysql-connector-java-8.0.21.jar file. When I deploy the project and send source code to the client he says that: The ...

How, with no company or non-profit organization to own an open source project, can I arrange for the project community to hold the ownership of the web site, vs. one person. Simple in theory, but ...

I wish to make a python package I have written publicly available on github as source code. I am being advised that I should add a NOTICE detailing all the third party packages that my code depends on....

Some times ago I've received a legal issue from monotype.com. They told that I was using font Helvetica Neue in my iOS app since 2015 to 2020 and now I need to pay for this font for all these years. I ...

I use the open source font Metropolis as main font for my webpages. However, apparently there has been a legal issue with similarities to Gotham. See https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/metropolis-font-...

I'm creating software which includes (PHP library for generating PDF documents on-the-fly) to export invoices which falls under GNU Lesser General Public License, the open source product is called ...

Let's say there is a MIT Licensed repository on github, then by definition all the files that belongs to the repository is owned by the copyright holder of the repository. But if I fork the project ...

My project is MIT licensed and 3rd party code is all either ISC or MIT licensed which are both compatible licenses. I maintain project code licenses per file, that is each source includes a license ...

I am writing a program for data analysis as a part of a bigger bioinformatics pipeline. Source code of the program is my own and I licensed it under Apache 2.0 license. However, I need to include two ...