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For questions about the legal aspects of open source. Questions asking for legal advice are off-topic. You should consider mentioning the relevant legal jurisdiction in your question.

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What happens if I share code online without any licence declaration?

Copyright law allows an author to prohibit others from reproducing, adapting, or distributing copies of the author's work. … However, you should take into account that the terms and agreements can be valid, because the internet doesn't have any borders and you can't assume that people in other countries know what the law says …
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Licensing a library under the MPL

Allow me to share a fragment from my book Entreprenerd: Building a Multi-Million-Dollar Business with Open Source Software as an introduction to my answer: I developed two PDF libraries. I started wr …
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