I'd like to publish and copyright some source code. However, I'm a minor living in the United States, and, as such, do not feel comfortable including my full name with my source code at this time. Is it possible to maintain copyright over source code without giving out my identity to anyone who wants it? Can I do something like, say, ...
I'm thinking of building a piece of software on top of another piece of software which is licensed under the GPL. I am planning on licensing and selling the software. Could anyone who is familiar with the details of the license see any problems or pitfalls of having a dependency on a piece of software licensed under the GPL? ...
Our company releases a software (A) under a dual license: GPL and a commercial license. The commercial license allows users to link in closed source plugins (B). Now, a third party has developed a plugin (C) under GPL. My question is if a client who has our commercial license may load plugin (B) and plugin (C) at the same time. (C) wil...
So I've got a JavaScript script that uses extremely modified pieces of another script. That script has an GNU General Public License. Do I need to use that license too or can I choose my own and just reference to that other script? ...
I have downloaded a WordPress Theme that has a GNU licence. I need to modify it quite a bit to make it compatible with my site. How does the licensing work on this? The original had a "Designed by X" in the footer but now I have made changes, I'm sure they won't want to look like they created it any more as it is not the same as the or...
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. ...
I've written some bash scripts (< 200 lines of code each) I wanna share with the world, but as I'm a FLOSS fan my first thought was to share them under the terms of the GPL. But...is that nonsense? I mean, I understand why to share a whole application under the terms of the GPL, but does it make sense for such small scripts? Or would it...
Suppose a website offers the following resources for premium users: PDF Files Video Files Presentations (e.g. .ppt files) Which protection techniques are available to prevent (slow down) the user to copy and re-distribute these resources? ...
Will I have copyright problems with Microsoft if I add the @font-face CSS3 property in my commercial webpage with the font: "Microsoft YaHei Bold" (The Cleartype Chinese font for Windows Vista).? ...
So I'm looking for web sites, and books to learn about licenses Books would be great, I'm sure I can get them from the university libraries. Ok, I have some code I'm going to release to the public. Some of it is quite valuable (not massively but quite valuable), 100's of manhours. I want to keep rights for it while making it available f...
If I use any commercial or free/opensource/ CMS's CSS and JavaScript with existing CSS classes, IDs and variable names can it be a copyright issue? ...
Every now and then I see a web site that has an old copyright date. In my mind, I always think "Look at the sucker who forgot to update his copyright year!" Then, while I was hard-coding a copyright year into the site I'm currently designing, it suddenly struck me: How the hell am I going to remember to update this? My immediate react...
I've recently been working with an opensource library for a commercial product. The opensource code is distributed from the website of the company who sells the proprietary product as a zip file. The library is a (direct) port to C# of the original library which is in Java. As such, it uses methods instead of getter/setter properties. T...
I have created an open-source application under Ms-PL, but I have some doubts on what to put into the "About" box. Is "Copyright (c) 2010 %Author name%" appropriate? Do I list all contributors as authors or separately? Also, can anybody point to existing open source applications I can use as a template for the "About" box? P.S. If you k...
Hi, I've had my first nightmare client recently who was messing me around with payment for a project. So... I've come to an agreement with another client to use some of the sites scripting to build a site for them. But, now the original client wants their site too. I have made a deal to licence the reused parts of the site (some jQuer...
Is there an equivalent of CreativeCommons' "by-nc-nd" license for software? (Attribution - Noncommercial - No Derivative Works) Their FAQ says, "it's not recommended" using CC licenses for software. I know there is GPL and LGPL, but their don't have the "No Derivative Works" option. ...
I have a lot of customized javascript and layout design, and I want to prevent as best I can people just copying and pasting and then using it for themselves. Is there any practical way to do this, or do I basically just have to be happy my php code does not show? I want to at least make it difficult to copy my site. EDIT Thanks for al...
I am wondering about subscription sites that host content, like recorded performances from concerts. I'm sure there is a tangle of copyright permissions that must be granted for these video/audio files to be hosted. For example, if a band plays a cover of another band's song, permission must be obtained from not only the band that perfo...
Hi, I googled and found some web online caculators (such as BodyFatCalculator & CaloricCalculator). I plan to develop the desktop Caculators in C# (WPF & .net 3.5). But I would test the online function and build my application model(I think some body properties not suit for asian people, maybe I still need do more research.). But no...
Recently I have read about Myows, described as "the universal copyright management and protection app for smart creatives". It is used to protect copyright and more. Currently I am working on a large web application which is in late testing phase. Because of the complexity of the app there are not many versions of it online so copyrig...