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Licensing refers to applying a license to an area of software. Only use this tag if your question concerns the application of a license to an area of interest. If your question concerns a specific license, use the tag that corresponds to your license. For more general questions, use this tag.
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Open-sourced project license
If you are interested in restricting how downstream recipients can republish your work, then you are not interested in licensing your software at open source as the OSI (and FLOSS community at large) defines …
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Does the license of a released product / artifact change with the content of a webpage?
Generally speaking, a future change to the code's license does not impact the license under which you received the code. If you validly received some code under the MIT license, and later the author s …
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Cannot find the license of a software (if it has any)
The author has allowed you to download the software in source form. If there is no license, they have not allowed you to distribute the software further or prepare derivative works, which are by defau …
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Is a "permission does not imply endorsement" clause compatible with OSS?
I would expect that requiring a notice of non-endorsement would not exclude a license from being a FLOSS license, considering that the original 4-clause BSD license is a FLOSS license despite its "obn …
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Open source license and "all other rights reserved"?
This effectively says, "Ms-RL defines the rights granted to you. Any rights not granted to you are not granted to you." As a tautology, this assertion has no practical effect but is also practically h …
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In 2018 if I use C++ Qt 5.10.0 to build a closed source application requires open source or ...
If you choose to use the Qt library under the open-source LGPL license, you may either statically or dynamically link it. However, both of these approaches come with requirements:
If you statically …
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Do public content licenses which are not FOSS exist?
Yes, there do exist licenses that broadly endeavor to make a work freely available (and often modifiable and redistributable, too) but are not FOSS licenses.
For examples, see the "Nonfree Software Li …
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What is the main difference between GPL and CC?
I strongly recommend reading Why is CC BY-SA discouraged for code? to understand why Creative Commons does not recommend their licenses for software. In short, the main points are:
The GPL is a copyl …
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AGPL and sandboxed user code
From here, there are two possibilities:
If the relationship between your program and user-supplied plugins falls into one of the "separate programs" cases, the licensing of user submissions is unrelated … to the licensing of your main program. …
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Do any open source licenses cover outbound internet connections/data sharing?
This has many philosophical, social, and practical problems:
This could not be free or open software according to Debian's Free Software Guidelines since it fails the desert island test, i.e., it is …
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Copied and modified amalgamation of GPL, Creative Commons, MIT, etc?
The exact wording of licensing terms is generally copyrightable, insofar as it is possible to state the same terms using different words. …
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Do I need to share the source for my modified AGPL-licensed MongoDB instance if the user doe...
MongoDB positively asserts that a program that uses a MongoDB database does not form a combined work with it. This is nice because my web service that uses MongoDB does not need to be licensed under t …
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What happens if I use a GPL licensed jQuery plugin without a licence on my website?
If you use a copyrighted work in a way that is normally an exclusive right of the copyright holder (redistributing the work, creating a derivative work, etc.), and your use has not been licensed by th …
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How to protect a web game with open-sourced code?
If your concern is that others may modify your code and...
don't license their modified client-side code under a free/open license, and
don't even publish their changes to the server-side code
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Can commercial software be created with Tor license?
You may ask the Tor Project for a trademark licensing agreement to use the name in your software product. …
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