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Source Code is a human-readable collection of instructions in a programming language used to produce a computer program.

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Who holds the copyright of standard lib C implementations?

The examples for functions from the standard library in the ISO standard for the C language are meant to be illustrative of the behavior of the function and are not a prescription how the function mus …
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License for JavaScript which doesn't permit minification?

There are no (open-source) licenses that meet your requirements and I am not sure if it is possible to write a license for them at all. The inclusion of the license in distributing the JS library, eve …
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Do I need to respect licences of dependencies of dependencies?

You are required to comply with all the licenses that apply to the different code parts that make up your project, including the licenses on transitive dependencies (dependencies of dependencies and d …
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GPL v3 - Does freely distributed software that includes GPL licensed code also require shari...

As the plat viewer is based upon a GPL licensed project, clause 6 of the GPL license requires that the source code must be made available: Conveying Non-Source Forms. You may convey a c …
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Can I have the source code of my Python/C++ project under MIT/BSD/Apache2.0 and its PyPI bin...

Can I use a more permissive licence (e.g., BSD/MIT/Apache) for my source code on GitHub, and at the same time use a GPLv2 license for its PyPI binary distribution? Yes, you can. You can even crea …
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Can CC-BY-SA code be removed from a larger code base and not have the remaining code bear th...

My concern would be that if I, at one stage of a project, used a little snippet of CC-BY-SA code, my entire project would have to be CC-BY-SA, even if the original CC-BY-SA snippet was removed. I fu …
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Using a FOSS license for binaries created in a hex editor

Most permissive licenses, like MIT and BSD, do not require you to provide source code. There is nothing in your workflow that prevents you from applying one of those licenses to your work. A license l …
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License of code generated by a code generator

As no (copyrightable) part of the generator makes it into the output, the license on the generator code does not affect the license of the output in any way. The license on the templates is a differe …
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Transpiled Source-Code License & Copyright Holder

The basis of copyright protection is that the result of human creativity gets protected from being appropriated by others. This means that if you apply a purely mechanical transformation on some sourc …
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Explicit linkage of GCC STL source code in end user's code - GPLv3 + GCC runtime exception

What is the situation when the end user has to include this code explicitly? Is the exception still triggered or this automatically force him to use GPLv3? I believe the linking exception will rem …
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What counts as disclosing source for software licenses?

Desktop applications does access have to be provided through the user interface (GUI), or can it just be through program files? There is no requirement that the source code can be obtained from wi …
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Clarification on using FFmpeg in an open source app

An FFmpeg binary that has been built with both --enable-gpl and --enable-nonfree cannot be distributed. Not at all. The GPL has the requirement that all code must be available under a GPL-compatible …
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Dependencies installed via package managers

Yes, there is a difference. If you mention a dependency in package.json (or a similar file that gets used by a mackage manager), you only need to have the right to download & use the dependency, no …
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Call GPL functionality from non-GPL interpreted code

To paraphrase the quote from the FSF given in the answer by JNic: The license of the interpreter itself is of no concern. The interpreter and the software executed by it are independent works as far …
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MIT License technicalities and compatibility with Apache 2.0

The MIT and Apache 2.0 licenses are both permissive licenses that put no or very little restriction on what licenses you can use for your own code (even if that code is a modification to MIT/Apache 2. …
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