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Source Code is a human-readable collection of instructions in a programming language used to produce a computer program.

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Reciprocal Public License - Usage in App, Commercial Limits

The Reciprocal Public License defines the notion of an "Extension": "Extensions" means any Modifications, Derivative Works, or Required Components as those terms are defined in this License. a …
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Do I need to host Qt source when compling with LGPLv3 license?

In this case, you are making what the LGPL calls a "Combined Work". Section 4 of the LGPLv3 says that you may distribute Combined Works if you "convey the Minimal Corresponding Source under the terms …
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Does "the GPL doesn't cover the output of a program" also apply if the output is source code?

When we say "the GPL doesn't cover the ouput of a program" what we mean precisely is that the license of a program's output data is a function of the license on the particular input data used to produ …
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Is there any way to assert that a source code correspond to a compiled code?

The naive answer is, of course, to build it yourself and verify that your built binary is identical to the binary supplied by the other party. So much for the theory. In practice, this can be tremend …
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Can a quine be distributed as binary only and be open source?

This is categorically fine under the MIT license (as long as you follow basic attribution and license-preservation requirements), since the MIT license allows you to distribute the work (and modified …
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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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If I use a mobile app that fetches data from a website under GPLv2+ is the app also under GPL?

The license of an application and the license of data that application produces can be independent, and are only interrelated if the data includes executable code from the executable itself: Is there …
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Do I have to offer the source of an AGPL (v3.0) licensed Web app even if I didn’t modify it?

I wrote to the FSF's licensing team about this question: [...] Does this [section 13] mean that if I run a *completely unmodified* AGPL-licensed program as a network service, I am *not* required t …
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Creating a game based on a story licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0

For point #1, I'd say generally that yes, your game is a derivative, and would need to be licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0 as well. Fictional characters are protected under copyright, and reuse of those ch …
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Are there examples of the free software which are available to run and copy as gratis but so...

The FSF includes Freedom #1 in their Free Software Definition: The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish (freedom 1). Access to the source cod …
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Open Source projects with encryption keys

You should not include keys in your open source project. You should include a file location where your code expects a key, and the user (or an included utility) creates or copies their own unique key …
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