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For questions about files containing the text of a license distributed alongside or within an open project.

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Can i use website domain as author for open source license?

First, modern copyright law imposes no requirement to include a copyright notice whatsoever. You could include no copyright notice, and your work would be just as covered by copyright law as a work wi …
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Include Appendix of Apache 2.0 in LICENSE file?

You may freely omit the Appendix. From the Apache License 2.0: Redistribution. You may reproduce and distribute copies of the Work or Derivative Works thereof [...] provided that You meet the …
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What license is the text of "Unlicense" licensed under?

The footer of the Unlicense web page indicates that the entire page (including the text of the license) is licensed under CC0 Public Domain Dedication. However, if it weren't licensed that way, the l …
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google_font license (Apache2.0) has no Copyright what to do?

Section 4(c) lists the only obligations you have with regards to copyright notices: You must retain, in the Source form of any Derivative Works that You distribute, all copyright, patent, trademark, …
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Why copyright notices in source files?

Files and authors can have many-to-many relationships: a file may have many different authors. I suppose you could enumerate the list of copyrights of each and every file in a master list somewhere, b …
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Can I change the caps to lowercase in licenses?

Programmers.SE has a similar question: Can I remove all-caps and shorten the disclaimer on my License? Tim Post's answer (which he says was derived from advice from a lawyer) says: The caps allow yo …
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Why do licenses such as the MIT License specify a single year?

The year is part of the copyright notice, not the license. It's important to understand that copyright notices are not very important now, after the widespread international ratification of the Berne …
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