From your perspective as a programmer, what are some of the pros and cons of releasing open-source hobby projects under permissive vs. copyleft licenses? My personal opinion is that there's nothing fundamentally immoral about improving an open-source project and making the improved version proprietary. This is not free-riding on the ...
I was wondering if the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licenses expects software that uses it to be distributed under a copyleft software license. Does it make a difference if the media is just linked and can be changed or if the media is embedded inside the software? Bonus questions: Would the GPL conflict with the Creative Co...
I'm looking for a license that has the following requirements: is viral. your code must be open source. you must let the author know and credit the author. if you distribute and you use this source code you must use this license. even if you re-implement but you use the same ideas and concepts then you must also use this license. even ...
hi, what are the main use of these services. Shall i use this for my blog? What is the necessity to show that icons? thank you. ...
Ok this may be a foolish question, but I just want some clarification on this. If you build a website on a GPL licensed web framework, let's say a browser based game or some kind of kind of sophisticated web application are you required to redistribute all the code? If this is so what licenses would allow you to build on top of an opens...
I'd like to license some code in a way that's less viral than GPL, but still copyleft. I can't and don't want to use GPL since I use some libraries which are basically open source, but incompatible with the GPL. I thought about using LGPL or MPL/CDDL. The problem with these is that they are trivial to circumvent. For one these licenses ...
After reading this paragraph in GPL FAQ I feel confused. That paragraph says that a proprietary program can use a GPL-licensed program via aggregation - as a separate program. Now consider an out-proc COM server. It is a separate program that is used by another program via a well-known interface. Looks pretty much like aggregation. Can...
My company is very concerned about entaglements that could result from the use of copy-left (e.g. GPL) code in our product. Because of this we have no compile scope Maven artifacts with copy-left licenses. However, with runtime or test scoped artifacts, does the same requirement apply? I wouldn't think so, but am very interested in he...