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Does license prohibition of illicit / malicious use or modification clash with GPL's freedom to modify?
Simply put, a requirement to seek outside approval in order to make or deploy changes is not GPL-compatible, nor is it even a requirement within the definitions of free and open-source software.
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Does license prohibition of illicit / malicious use or modification clash with GPL's freedom to modify?
You are approaching this the wrong way.
First, you are assuming any wish to modify the software will be malicious, while in reality people will want to make all kinds of changes you hadn't anticipated ...
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Do Stack Exchange’s ToS mean that the user-generated content is double-licensed to them?
Does this sentence just summarize what the consequences are of
licensing (to SE) my content under CC BY-SA 3.0?
Or does this sentence state that I’m licensing (to SE) my content
under a ...
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Does license prohibition of illicit / malicious use or modification clash with GPL's freedom to modify?
Modifications are still possible, as long as they go through the official channel and are verified to be fully compliant by the community.
This would make the software definitely not open source as ...
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Does license prohibition of illicit / malicious use or modification clash with GPL's freedom to modify?
If I received GPL licensed software and pass it to someone else, that is copyright infringement unless I follow the GPL license conditions. Telling the receiver they cannot use the software for ...
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Does license prohibition of illicit / malicious use or modification clash with GPL's freedom to modify?
Modifying and using the software is not the same thing as connecting to my network.
The GPL and related free software licenses are about the rights to modify and distribute the software, not to ...
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Is it a license breach to post GPLv3 content to Facebook?
If you were to post a GPL work on some service such as Facebook, the difficulty arises that we may only convey this work under the terms of the GPL. In particular, GPLv3 section 4 says:
You may ...
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Mechanisms to disclaim liability or have users waive their ability to sue you (for Wikipedia-like websites/mobile apps for good)?
At least under UK law, the general consensus is that you don't need this kind of disclaimer: mistakes are not actionable unless grossly negligent, and that is a very high bar. Other jurisdictions may ...
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Do Amazon AppStore terms allow for GPL software?
TL/DR: The Amazon AppStore is compatible with GPL software, as long as it stays away from the DRM features.
The terms of the Amazon AppStore, which can be found here, include some restrictions that ...
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How do companies spot when a person is violating their terms and conditions?
There is a free version of Highcharts, but it primarily pertains to personal (non-commercial) use. The most obvious answer to your first question is: because it's the law. Highcharts licenses their ...
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How do I require users to license future submissions on sign-up?
The way that StackExchange does it is a simple statement that you have read and agree with the Terms of Service when registering for an account.
Some sites use a slightly stronger indication by ...
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Does copyright infringement apply to user interfaces in a software?
(This answer is based on US law; your legal system may differ.)
You acknowledge and agree that Postman (...) have and retain all legal right (...) in the Services including but not limited to any ...
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Applicable legal terms when interacting with smart contracts on the Ethereum network
Open Source Licenses are granting rights to do things, that --as worded in GPLv3-- "without permission, would make you directly or secondarily liable for infringement under applicable copyright ...
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Is using SheetJS free for commercial use?
This is the widely-used Apache License 2.0, which allows you to redistribute the work, whether modified or unmodified, for any purpose, as long as you preserve the original author's copyright notices.
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Is this normal? Intermediate client is not willing to provide license terms and not willing that I appear as the author
For nearly all issues of work done under contract, as we've already said, the details depend entirely on what's in the contract. In terms of normal behaviour, the answers to your questions are yes, ...
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Example Terms of Service for OSS software hosted on Google platform?
I am not a lawyer...
Depending on which license you use, there may be provided examples. For instance, the folks at gnu.org have a "How to use this license" type document
https://www.gnu.org/...
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