I wish to give different licenses to different parts of my code. Also I need to put some copy rights on several SQL statements. Is it possible? How should I organize my code to make it happen? ...
I'm rewriting a small MIT-licensed program in C, and I intend to copy a segment from it (though not verbatim) that prints usage information and such things. The programs are going to behave, for the most part, the same, but the implementations are going to be much different. What is the best way to incorporate this code into my program,...
My program reads settings from a specially crafted configuration text file. I supply a sample configuration file together with my program when I ship the program. Is the sample configuration file contents subject to copyright? ...
I have an idea for image copy-protection that I'm in the process of coding up and plan on selling to one of my clients who sells images online. If successful I think there would be a lot of people in a similar situation to my client who would be interested in the code also. I think this is a fairly unique idea that could be packaged into...
I have just started working on an open source project. The project is hosted on CodePlex and I work on it in my spare time. What would be appropriate values for the default assembly attributes (listed below)? [assembly: AssemblyCompany("")] [assembly: AssemblyCopyright("")] [assembly: AssemblyTrademark("")] It surprised me to see the ...
A client ask me to generate PDF in python, but i don't know if i have to pay the license or just use it. what do i have to do? In their web site said: XHTML2PDF is dual-licensed: 1. GNU General Public License Version 2.0 (GPLv2) 2. A commercial license In their docs: pisa is copyrighted by Dirk Holtwick, Germany. pisa ...
I am trying to create a type of font repository for use on my websites, so that I can call to any font in the repository in my css without any other set-up. To do this I created a subdomain on which I placed folders for each font in the repository that contained the various file types for each font. I also placed a css file called font-f...
Is it legal to use source code from papers and such? Like this paper on perlin noise: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/paper445.pdf Links to this source code: http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/noise/ And Stam's famous talk on fluid dynamics, includes source code throughout, annotated with instructions like "add these macros to the beginning of you...
This question might not be a programming problem, but its been bothering me. There is a lot of free js/css scripts out there for public use. I some times use these scripts. If any, what is the formal and proper way to credit these snippets when all i have is a name of a website and a url. I understand that a simple comment might get ...
I'm putting some source code up on codeplex, and I need to select a licence, and I feel like MIT is most simple and fitting from the options I have. But I need to specify copyright holders, who are these? I hope that somebody would want to contribute to the source code, so I don't feel like I can put myself as copyright holder. Can I pu...
I'm using intelliJ IDEA 9. It has a function to make a copyright profile and apply to all files I create. What I'm trying to do is to format the copyright comment right. Suppose I have a copyright text as this: Copyright (c) 2010 my.company. All rights reserved. I wish it to be inserted in files automatically as following: //////////...
hi all, we were maintaining an MS Access application. Person who actually developed the application used copyrighted code. Now we want to remove that code and re-write that logic. Problem is we dont know what is the copyrighted code and what is not. Is there any way or tool that can be used to scan through the existing code and flag the...
What ways do you use to protect copy righted images in your website? ...
Hi, I want to continue on my previous question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3007168/torrents-can-i-protect-my-software-by-sending-wrong-bytes Developer Art suggested to add a unique key to the application, to identifier the cracker. But JAB said that crackers can search where my unique key is located by checking for binary diffe...
Currently I am manually checking all client website(s) to make sure there are no copyright images (Getty). Are there any tools/software that could be used to determine automatically if a website has any images that belong to Getty (or other similar companies?) ...
Hi, Is there a free open source software for protecting HTML from "select all", "copy" and "save as". Thanks, Ahmed. ...
Example: the processtext company http://processtext.com/ they have dozens of pdf related utilities that do not require adobe's products to be installed. Any while on the subject, are there available code examples for manipulating and processing pdfs? ...
I am developing an information management system in C# Winforms. Of course, I need to support my clients. Traditionally or popularly web sites are used to do client support. I am thinking why I don't build it in my application. And then I have some related questions: Is it a good idea to do so? Is it better to use other software or w...
It is in an area, about which I don't now anything, but it's very important, I think. Just now, I'm finishing the script of big portal. But how can I be sure that the client will not use my script in other sites? Are there any script hash algorithms? Please help me to understand how can I protect me, and my script... ...
I am the project manager for a Game Development Interest Group at my college and we are currently developing a game that we would like to release for free. The actual source code of the game I would like to license under the GPL (This is because I want any re-distributions or derivative works of our game to also release the source code ...