Is there a name for turning an open-source project into a commercial product?
I'm trying to find information about open source projects that have been turned into commercial products - is there a term for it when a company does this? ...
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What source licenses allow inclusion in commercial applications
Which open source licenses allows inclusion of the licensed source code in commercial applications without having to make our program open source as well? In particular, I was looking on koders.com for an implementation of a fast hash algorithm in C#, but I am not sure if Iam allowed to use it in a commerial application without limits. ...
Open source licensing and the Red Hat business model
How can licenses be applied to have two parallel versions of software, one freely available and another commercial, like Red Hat has done with it's version of Linux? Also, can snippets of code be freely ported from one to the other or must it be designed separately? ...
Microsoft Public License in commercial Silverlight application?
I'm developing a commercial silverlight application using some third party libraries that are published under Microsoft Public License (MPL). I have to include the license text into my product which is somewhat strange in an silverlight application. In a normal desktop application I would just include the license als a .txt but I've no ...
Which vendors offer free licenses for use of their products in F/OSS projects?
Which vendors are known to offer free licenses of their otherwise paid and propreitary software in support of Free and Open Source Software (F/OSS) projects? Where possible, please provide a link to the product and the page where the free license offer for F/OSS projects is mentioned. For example, “Open Source License for ReSharper by J...
Free for personal use license?
I'm trying desperately to find a software licensing model that would allow me to make my product completely open to the public domain for personal use/modification, but would be able to be sold commercially. I know such a beast exists, and I'm sure in many flavors. I just can't find it. ;( What I'm hoping for is a way to allow people t...
A commercial software but open and free for personal/edu. How to license?
I am developing a software to sell for business use but am willing to make it free and open-source for personal and educational use. Actually I can see the flowing requirements I would like the license to set: Personal and educational usage of the program and its source codes is to be free. In case of publishing of derivative works th...
Can I use/include gsdll32.dll redmonnt.dll (no modifications) in a commercial application for my client?
I am not a license expert; however, after a lot of research, I am still struggling to answer the following questions and would like to know if my assumptions are right! Is it legal to include gsdll32.dll and redmonnt.dll in a commercial product? Should I release any source code of the commercial app where I am using this library? Is th...
Are there any good books on writing commercial quality software?
Hey, My background has been generally new technology demonstrators, which, well... demonstrate the latest technology and how it can be of use to a clients company. They use it for internal demos etc. Now my career has shiffed course a bit more into actual products, in particular software which runs in locations like museums as interact...
What are the good wpf flow chart diagram control packages available?
I am searching for commercial control packages that can draw flow charts, similar to GoXaml and MindScape WPF Flow Diagram. Is there other well established commercial WPF flow chart control packages available on the market which I should consider? ...
Libraries for developing NCPDP SCRIPT based systems (a standard for e-prescribing)
What are (based on experiences) best (commercial or open source) libraries for developing NCPDP-based systems? Background: NCPDP (National Council for Prescription Drug Programs) is a not-for-profit, ANSI-accredited, standards development organization. One of it's standards is the SCRIPT Standard for Electronic Prescribing, which allows...
Software free trial and using software in open-source and commercial development
For example I found great uml tool (http://www.architexa.com/start/pricing) that is free for 30 days. Can I use screenshots from it in open-source and commercial website? since its mine for 30 days, I should be able to do whatever I want with it, right? ...
OpenCL for commercial apps, byte code?
I'm looking at options for GPGPU work. Say I write OpenCL kernel code or GLSL shader code and embed that in my executable. There's nothing to stop somebody grep-ing the binary and stealing my hard work. I could obscure or encrypt the strings and decrypt them just-in-time, but somebody can always go in with a debugger and intercept that j...
Is there a commercial grade Git server product
Does anyone know of commercial server product for managing GIT repos analogous to FogCreek's Kiln? If any, it would be nice to get some rundown of some most notable features it boasts. PS - it does not have to be necessarily commercial software ... commercially supported would do just as fine, but it has to be installable server softwa...
What constitutes non-commercial?
Although I understand this site is by no means a place for legal advice, and I'm not looking for any lawyers to step up and defend their cases, I'm certain that there are other programmers out there who have dealt with this and can share their thoughts and experiences. My general question is, what constitutes non-commercial? If some sof...
Compilers used for commercial products
What kind of compilers do big software companies such as Adobe use for their commercial products like Photoshop? ...
can i use gravatar generated icons for commercial websites for free?
Hello all, can i use gravatar generated icons for commercial websites for free? is it no fees? i am building webforum, and dont want after couple months/years to get issue from court. thanks and take care, Ragims ...
Are there any commercial projects using Squeak Smalltalk that are not web based
Doing a Google search doesn't reveal much, the three of four links I found where dead. Maybe the stackoverflow community is in a better position to answer the question. Where are the none web based commercial Squeak Smalltalk projects? ...
Don't really understand what non-commercial means (when looking for icons)
Hi, i tried to understand what "Non-commercial" means (i am not an American) i have an icon- for example: http://findicons.com/icon/86721/new_file?id=353935 its license is: "Freeware Non-commercial" does this means that i cant: use it in my software and than sell my software? use it in my software and than provide my software for free? ...
Was Samba ever distributed commercially?
I have heard that there was once a company whose only purpose was to sell Samba to corporations that forbade open source software. Is this true? If so, what was that company's name? ...