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For questions about the definition of open source
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Can open source exist without copyright?
Open source licenses operate by licensing the rights that exist under copyright. If those rights did not exist (just as they cease to do when a copyright expires), then any terms imposed by the licens …
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Web app with GPLv3 license, What does it mean by "6. If you modify it, you have to indicate ...
Point #7 in this summary is a subtle misstatement: it would be better phrased as, "If (and only if) you choose to distribute modifications of this code, you MUST do so under this same license, GPLv3." …
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Is org.json a free/open source library?
The FSF says of the JSON License:
This ["not-for-evil" term] is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, the …
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Is "open software" the same as "open source" software?
The term "open source" has a broad base of speakers who use the term to refer strictly to software licensed under terms in compliance with the Open Source Initiative's Open Source Definition document. …
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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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Is the Ender 3 V2 licensed under the same license as the original?
As far as I can tell, V2 is a completely different product. It does not appear to ever have been Creality's intent that the OSHWA certification for the original Ender 3 apply to the Ender 3 V2. Ender …
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So the GPL doesn't restrict the creator of the software in any way?
Putting software under the GPL does not mean abandoning ownership?
Absolutely not. In nations signatory to the Berne Convention, copyright is the default, which means by default only the author (o …
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