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Reusing own code at work without losing licence
For me, question one is whether your employer is happy with this. They may have opinions about code appearing in their codebase to which they do not hold the copyright, so ask them before you do this....
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Who owns code contributed to a license-free repository?
A repository with no license is "All rights reserved". That is, the owner of the repository is sole owner of all its code.
It also means that this person is the only one who is allowed to ...
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Who owns code contributed to a license-free repository?
It seems like submitting a pull request [...] involves an implied permission to incorporate my code.
Implied permission, yes. However as I think you've worked out, implied permissions are not ...
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Reusing own code at work without losing licence
If you wrote it in your own time, then you are the copyright owner.
But if you work on it or update it during work time using company resources and/or use it in your company's products, and if you ...
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How can I license a project to be as "open" as possible, but deter commercial machine learning models from being trained on outputs?
As mentioned in the question Is the output of an open source program licensed the same?, the license of an application or library does normally not affect the license of the output generated with that ...
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Who owns code contributed to a license-free repository?
The repository is just a publication channel, it does not change anything about the license under which somebody publishes.
Many public repositories are owned by projects or other entities that won't ...
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Please help me choosing license for open hardware project
There are at least three Open Source Initiative (OSI) approved licenses for open source hardware:
CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 – Permissive
CERN Open Hardware Licence Version 2 – Weakly ...
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Combining GPL with non-commercial license
This is an addon to the other answers. GPL does not require you to share your work if the code is not used outside of your organization. Be aware of what constitutes "distribution". I plan ...
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