Stars are exactly what you said they are. Some indication that someone (or maybe a bot) clicked on a button and taken in abstraction of anything else there is not much more that you can infer from ...

Software dependencies: A not-too-technical introduction Summary Programs depend on other programs, often with many deep levels of indirection. Million of packaged FLOSS programs are available through ...

TL;DR I believe that GNU GPLv3 does not require attribution, [...] Am I correct in my understanding of GPLv3? No, the GPL-3.0 always requires attribution composed at the minimum of a copyright ...

The short answer is no. You cannot remove a BSD license notice, otherwise you are no longer licensed per the BSD (many variants) that all share the essential requirement to retain the copyright and ...

Linux (the Kernel) uses the GPL 2.0 with an extra statement: NOTE! This copyright does not cover user programs that use kernel services by normal system calls - this is merely considered normal ...

Short answer: No. The Java (JRE and JDK) binaries provided by Oracle come so many strings attached that they are practically unfit for any usage or redistribution with proprietary or open source-...

There are several Q&A about the AGPLv3 on this site and some answers are sending vague or mixed signals. Here is a (hopefully) clear and definitive answer with references. First the AGPLv3 is ...

Your assumptions are mostly correct but you can make things a tad simpler... You are de-facto creating a new package, so you should update your package.json such that it is clear it is something ...

The common understanding is to consider that contributions are made under the same license as the project these are contributed to (unless stated otherwise). On GitHub, this is made explicit in the ...

Does using a library already constitute a derivative work, meaning I would not be allowed to do that? Merely using an unmodified library would generally not be considered creating a derivative work ...

Think of it this way: how much documentation would I like to be available when I visit an open source project? Answer: a lot how much documentation is enough? Answer: there is never enough ...

Congratulations! The problem you face is a common one for a popular open source project. IMHO, beginners should above all learn to communicate! So you could explain in your CONTRIBUTING file what a ...

Yes this is correct but you do not need to duplicate the same Apache notice twice. Instead you could use this simpler and more useful form IMHO: Copyright 2017 My Example Company Copyright ...

I have a client who sent me his source code for me to review. If I have a "client", then this means I have likely some commercial contractual relationship with this company. And if this client sent ...

Does XYZ software version 1.1 still retain any MIT License benefits for features not altered during the upgrade from XYZ software version 1.0? No. A license is attached to a specific set of code ...

(disclosure: I am a supporter and my company is a silver member of the Linux Foundation). TL;DR: Higher levels of membership pay bigger fees and have more say in the running of the Foundation with ...

Every lawyer I consulted with always gave me the same answer: JavaScript in web page is code redistributed to whoever loads this page in their browser. So yes, this is unambiguously redistribution. ...

Am i missing something? why are people writing them from scratch instead of forking? No idea. This may be something specific to the JS realm. Python boilerplate projects tend to be forked heavily ...

However I think only AGPL-3.0 requires build/install instructions according to the following links.[...] [and not the LGPL-2.1] Am I right? Nope. These links are not the license proper. Just ...

Is there any particular reason to license docs with CC BY 4.0 rather than MIT? The MIT license was originally designed primarily for software code (and its related documentation). The CC licenses ...

If your MIT-licensed code calls a BSD-licensed library but you do not redistribute this BSD-licensed library yourself, there is no specific need to attribute nor reference this library beside ...

To the best of my knowledge Hotspot and most of the JVM code (mostly C/C++ native code) in the OpenJDK is released under the GPL 2.0 with Assembly Exception and not a "bare" GPL. This is in ...

Let me take a practical example with this article on How to recursively search directories by using Visual C# that contains some sizeable code snippets. Is there any indication of what I can do with ...

I would like to know if selling a hardware product which runs a firmware is considered as conveying that firmware. Yes. The binaries are inside the device and are therefore redistributed with the ...

Can I recode wordpress or another CMS and then sell it as my own? recode for specific purposes. I'm going to remove needless code, add my own and customize CMS for myself As long as the license ...

Lawyers have told me than in most cases the GPL of a JavaScript library running in the browser does not impact the code running on the server side.... within reason: for instance if you use something ...

I do it this way: I add a proper Apache notice and copyright at the top of the file I document in comments where I took the code from and what I took I document in comments any changes I did I add a ...

I was wondering since the Linux kernel in Android is under a free license while the other software is under Apache license. In which license we can say Android is? Android is using multiple licenses ...

But what about the libraries that x-library uses? Is it my job to give attribution to it or is it x-library's job? If you redistribute libraries with you app --whether or not they are your direct, ...

What strategies could the server use to ensure that everyone is playing fairly, and exclude modified clients? Could the game even be considered libre software if the server did not allow modified ...