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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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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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Reusing own code at work without losing licence
I know it's a little more effort and not sure which language this is in but why not simply release this as a library and avoid the confusion and discussion entirely.
That way your library can be ...
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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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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
People have mentioned how things can go wrong - it's always been smooth for me as long as I communicate. I've even gone a step or two further by going the other way around. For code I already have, I ...
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Reusing own code at work without losing licence
Like others have said. Your employers can really screw you on this. If you have personal code and you want to use it at work. The best thing to do is license it and plaster it all over in a public ...
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Reusing own code at work without losing licence
If you work for Amazon and signed the standard paperwork, then you gave them EXCLUSIVE future control over any open source code you may have previously created that you re-use in your work for them. ...
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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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Reusing own code at work without losing licence
Under copyright law, you wrote the code so you own it
If you wrote something at work then probably something in your contract states "if you did it on work time then the company owns it" - ...
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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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