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If I make my website open source, does it include page content?
If you create the content of the website, you can license it however you wish, regardless of the licensing of the code and/or layout.
It's perfectly valid to have a license that boils down to "...
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GNU licence re-distribute abandoned project
Can i just take over the copyright, when the codeowner is "gone". (I guess not)
The copyright owner is not gone; someone will have bought the assets of the company, which includes the ...
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Maintaining a parallel fork of a project that contains the original authors' company name
From a legal point of view, the GPL license allows you to rename everything in sight, except for mentions in the copyright lines.
In practice, a complete renaming of all files and classes is rarely to ...
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Maintaining a parallel fork of a project that contains the original authors' company name
In copyright terms, you must obey the GPL - leave intact all copyright notices, and provide a copy of the source etc to anyone you distribute the binaries to. If you do that, you can remove all ...
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If I make my website open source, does it include page content?
I think you're asking the wrong question here, but I'm going to answer it as given, in the hope that this helps clear things up.
If I make my website open source, does it include page content?
Do ...
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Maintaining a parallel fork of a project that contains the original authors' company name
This is going to depend on how much effort you want to do. But a solution I have used in the past is to include "their" classes and then overload where I needed to.
GenericSimulator extends ...
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What does GPLv2 say about adding or removing source files?
You need to notify the recipients of changes being made.
Think of a person - like you - who discovers a new repository which solves some issue you have or which is a cool project. Where do you look ...
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Include Tool under GPLv3 licence as an additional Unity executable - Is this approach viable?
This means anyone can take that sourcecode and compile a new headless Unity executable. Therefore would this be a way to comply with the copyleft licence?
Assuming that you don't need to read the ...
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Ok to mix open source with closed source?
Is it OK to have a product of 2 parts where one is open sourced (because it makes use of a existing screen-casting application with a GPL licence) and the other is closed source (where communication ...
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