commercial-application

How do you protect your commercial application from being installed on multiple computers with one license?

How do you protect your commercial application from being installed on multiple computers from people who only own one license? Do you think it's a good idea to have more than just a serial based scheme? ...

Commercial use of Google API

This question maybe a better fit on The Business of Software forum but despite my post on there, I'm still unable to determine the following: Can I use the Google API to build commercial software? If not how can the people behind Byline charge for their app? Update: I'm specifically interested in Google's Picasa & Reader APIs ...

jQuery commercial legal questions

Hello, The company I am working for is developing a web application layer for a commercial software product. My questions have probably been answered before but I have searched and I can't find a similar scenario to my question. The Web UI will be developed using jQuery and involve using the excellent pre-built plugins other users have...

What is the prefered way to publish a binary-only application for multiple Linux distributions?

I have a closed-source Linux application that I want to distribute. This application is using wxWidgets/GTK so there is a huge list of shared libraries (60+) that this application depends on. What is the prefered way to publish the application and support the maximum number of distros? Is it to build the application for each supported...

XBAP usage and maturity issues

we're considering migrating our UI to XBAP. we've chosen XBAP despite knowing the clients must have .net pre-installed, since we're not targeting the masses but rather IT professionals in the corporate environment, and it's a way to preserve our investment (in a WPF based UI in a client-server architecture) and enjoy web deployment. how...

What software license to use?

I'm finishing a CMS (Control Management System) written in PHP5 and that uses Zend Framework an CKEditor (www.ckeditor.com). I have plans to make it commercial but I don't know what kind of license to use in the software. The code will be open (I won't compile or encrypt PHP code with any things like Zend Guard). People can: Create p...

python: Writing Application- Different modules/Licenses and impact on Proprietary application

Hello, I've written an application using wxPython and various other small modules (xlrd, xlwrt, pyserial, etc.) xlrd/xlwt i believe use a BSD license, and wxPython.. ""Being a wrapper, wxPython uses the same free software licence used by wxWidgets (wxWindows License)—which is approved by Free Software Foundation and Open Source ...

commercial Web application PHP -

Hello, I was thinking of making a commercial application to sell to customers to install on their servers but I wanted to do it with PHP & MySQL. what should i do to ensure that the source code (& Database) will not be opened nor copied. The most important thing is the code will be hosted on the customer server. And also how to ensure ...

What does it mean if an open source jQuery project is dual licensed as GPL and MIT?

Possible Duplicate: jQuery, jQuery UI, and Dual Licensed Plugins (Dual Licensing) I'm interested in using the fullcalendar jQuery project in a commercial project I am working on but I don't understand what it means that it is dual licensed as GPL and MIT. http://github.com/arshaw/fullcalendar ...