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Commercial activity is anything to make money. This tag is for questions about making money with Open Source / Free Software, or other interaction between open projects and commercial activity. Warning: Open Source / Free Software can be commercial as well. Do not use this tag to mean not-open-source. Use the [proprietary] or [closed-source] tags instead.
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API license question
As you've said, the GeoIP2 Java API is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. MaxMind has clearly granted you a license to distribute and modify the software under those terms. The terms of the Apache …
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Can a free software (as in free speech) be not free (as in free beer)?
What freedoms you provide to a recipient of a piece of software is orthogonal to what price you charge to transfer a copy of that software to someone.
The FSF's position on selling free software is:
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Can commercial software be created with Tor license?
To answer your question directly: yes, the copyright license permits you to release commercial and/or proprietary software based on Tor software, but the Tor Project's trademark policy will not allow you … In fact, they generally forbid any derivative software product to use the Tor trademark name or logo, commercial or otherwise. …
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Working around GPL Restrictions
It is true that copyleft requirements can only apply to material that is within the same copyrighted work as the copyleft-licensed material. If you employ a client-server model, it is quite likely tha …
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AGPL licensed app, but only available with payment?
First, it's important to consider whether the company selling this software is the exclusive copyright holder or if they are themselves licensees of someone else's AGPL license grant. If they are the …
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Can I sell charge a code that link/use a library released as Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 Inte...
The Creative Commons Non-Commercial (NC) licenses prohibit commercial use or sale, but CC BY-SA is not an NC license (vs. BY-NC or BY-NC-SA, which are NC licenses). …
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Is it legal to repackage GPL software and sell it on Microsoft Store, like GIMP?
Yes, absolutely, and it is important that the GPL allows this.
First, the FSF encourages people to sell free software when possible (emphasis mine):
Actually, we encourage people who redistribute fre …
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Company policy says no code under license requiring sharing source can be used. Stack Overfl...
You are broadly correct that if your program includes CC BY-SA code from someone else, you must license the entire program under CC BY-SA. Note that this doesn't actually force source disclosure -- un …
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If I make extensive changes to open source software and open source my changes, can I charge...
By contrast, permissive licenses (like MIT, BSD, and Apache licenses) do allow you to distribute derivatives under less permissive terms, so you could introduce non-commercial terms (or any other non-free …
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Can I (commercially) redistribute copies of software under GPLv3?
Yes, you may distribute someone else's GPL-licensed software, modified or unmodified, for free or at cost, even if you originally paid for it. If you received the software under the GPLv3, then your f …
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How to deal with situation where your competitors have access to your source code because yo...
First I will echo the fact that if you don't distribute software that includes GPL-licensed components, you are not bound by the requirements of the GPL.
If you are, it is worth noting that Stallman a …
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Appropriate license for project using assets not available for commercial use
Where you need to take care is in clearly indicating which files are licensed which way, and communicating to recipients that the project as-is cannot be redistributed for commercial purposes due to the …
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Is an open-source license an incentive for companies to buy an exception?
Copyleft terms like those in the GNU GPL place obligations on distribution of the software. Therefore, copyleft terms place an incentive to purchase an exception (i.e., a separate, non-copyleft licens …
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What truly defines open source? Can someone call something open source and charge?
Is what they are doing legal?
It certainly seems that way. The phrase "open source" is just a pair of words. Anyone can use the phrase to refer to some kind of "source" that is "open" in some respec …
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How can I license a YouTube commercial which includes CC BY-SA Licensed music?
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A synchronization or "synch" right involves the use of a recording of musical work in audio-visual form: for example as part of a motion picture, television program, commercial …
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