Do iPhone games which replicate the exact functionality and rules of popular proprietary board games need special permission (copyright, trademark, etc) from the relevant companies (Mattel, Hasbro, Parker Brother, etc) before being submitted into the App Store for approval? ...
I was looking at my version of Mecurial and I don't understand how it is that it can be Copyrighted and Free software at the same time. Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 1.3.1+7cea12e70129) Copyright (C) 2005-2009 Matt Mackall and others This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warran...
many people remove the copyright from my script , what i can do ? best wishes it is a php script and open source :D ...
I work for a school district. Every year we have to export a list of students from our student management system and send it to a company that handles our online exams. So to do this export, we had to hire someone who knew the inner workings of our student management system. He wrote an sql (Adaptive Sybase SQL Anywhere) query to export...
I've been trying to get my head around private software licenses. I'm working for several companies at the same time - most of whom share my codes and all of whom want to own everything. It creates a bit of problem for me since I don't mind them owning the code, but at the same time I don't want to re-write code snippets (classes, method...
I've concocted an open source license in my head that I feel is a good compromise between copyleft and permissive licenses. I think it extracts many of the benefits of copyleft with few of the downsides. Here's a rough draft of it. The spirit of it is that a company should be able to profit by adding value to open source software, but...
I worked on a small prototype for a client. As part of the delivery I need to transfer copyright and full rights to reuse and redistribute the code that I have written. I found some text to transfer ownership of images and videos on Google, but I need something specific to code written. The work was produced in New Hampshire, United S...
I have a book on data structures and programming, and I referenced it to implement a B-tree insertion function. I copied most of the algorithm and variable names from the code samples in the book, but adapted it to match the structures I had already prototyped. I'd like to release my code under a permissive license (e.g. the MIT Licens...
I am building a product for which I plan to use a software that is licensed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. I am not planning to extend the code and I just plan to use it, as a JAR. Should I also release my software as AGPL and open source my code base? ...
If there's an existing website that has the exact feature I'm trying to implement and I can see the implementation by viewing the page source or viewing the included JavaScript files, is there anything wrong with copying it? ...
Is there a possibility to include the current year via DateTime.Now.Year in the AssemblyInfo.cs-file? I have tried [assembly: AssemblyCopyright("Copyright " + DateTime.Now.Year)] But it seems the argument can only be a constant expression. ...
Hi all, Does anyone know if there are any restrictions imposed by Facebook on whether or not their "default" icons can be modified and used in custom applications/websites? For example, does the Facebook icon available here violate Facebook terms and condition OR copyright statement? Free Icons: Grunge Peeling Stickers Social Media Ic...
I've started to write a file format specification for a domain-specific data type. My goal is to improve interoperability between a large number of data providers and search algorithms. I want the result to be available for use, patent-free and without distribution fees. I'm looking for advice on which license to use, both for the speci...
I am starting a web business, which is still in the planning stages. We are about a week into development, and we have a skeletal web site up on a test server. We have our business plans pretty well drawn out at our project management site which uses Redmine, so all our ideas are contained in our database. All our ideas are either in ou...
What is the standard way of writing "copyright information" in python code? Should it be inside docstring or in block comments? Sorry to bother if it is trivial, as I could not find it in PEPs. ...
Hi Everyone, First of all, I'm sorry that I can't tell many details about my software and sorry if my English is bad. I'm developing an application that makes use of some new technology. Then there is a rival software. I notice that its author has been trying to copy features (with slight difference) from my program, one by one, and sel...
If I understood the GPL/LGPL and other similar license FAQ's correctly, I can put my name in a License file and/or add a copyright notice with my name in the source files, and that's pretty much a done deal. But how can one claim to be the author of 'xyz' software if the copyright notice only states the authors First and Last name? What...
I have a software project I want to release under GPLv3, it uses two pieces of code that other parties have developed (one is the DLR by Microsoft, which is under the Microsoft Public License and the other piece of code is under the New BSD License). The BSD licensed code is compiled into the same binary as my code (but none of it is c...
What is the difference between the Affero General Public License and the GNU General Public License (GPL)? ...
(This is a follow up question to my question about combining GPLv3, Ms-PL and BSD licenses). I have a piece of software I would like to release under the GPLv3, however it requires two other pieces of code - one which is Ms-PL (Microsoft Public License) licensed and one that is BSD licensed. Is it possible to distribute the code under ...