gpl

How can I avoid adding copyright messages to each source file of my application?

I'm trying to put my web application under AGPL license. According to the How to use GNU licenses for your own software I've got to insert a copyright notice and a statement of copying permission into each file. Since my application consist of variety of different type of files, e.g. .js, .html, .php, .mhtml, .mas, .png, .jpg, etc. the p...

How does the GPL cover invoking a separate program?

Using Python's subprocess module, my code invokes a GPL-licensed program. My code starts the process, sends some data to stdin and reads stdout. What does the GPL say about this use case? Am I in violation of the license? ...

Using custom versions of GNU/GPL web applications as a subscription fee commercial model

If i take a web application which is subject to GNU/GPL license and modify it in-house and then use it as a subscription fee business model, for eg. user pays for service and web content and not for the software itself, thus i am not distributing the software itself, is my custom version of the software be subject to the GNU/GPL terms of...

Qt4 Program Crashing Unless SDK Installed

I've written a Open Source program that I've released as GPL built using the Qt4 LGPL SDK. This program has the ability to search an optional Sqlite3 database for data. Here is what is making me lose my mind. I compile the program on the development machine. When I try to run it, I can errors about missing DLLs. I copy those dlls into t...

Legal to sell qt application?

would it be legal to sell a qt/c++ application (lgpl) without buying a license? And would doing the same but with pyqt(GPL) be legal? If it's not, should I explicitely tell the customer (It's an specific application for only a few customers) It's license, I don't think he/she would understand a thing. And I guess we will install the soft...

How does GPLv3 apply to source code generated from XML?

How does the GPLv3 license apply to source code generated from a XML? Will I have to put the license in the XML files and/or the generated source? EDIT: What I am is doing is this: The XML are like compile-time "plugins" into this program that I have. Partly my question is that are the XMLs required to be included in the distributed sou...

Can I relicense someone's MIT code under GPL

I've picked up an open source project (an application) which was released under MIT license. I've made many modifications to it and have been working on it and would like to release my version under a GPL license. I heard that licenses like the MIT and New BSD are more permissive than the GPL, and vaguely remember reading that it's pos...

what's meant by "Charge for development licenses"

Hi I was downloading Qt creator IDE and they say "Charge for development licenses" with a (True) under Commercial and (FALSE) under LGPL. Also I need to know something general About QT library. is it free so I can make (commercial products and sell ) or I will have to buy something to do that. EDIT: the page is Actually about QT t...

gplV2: can i use it for free or not?

i'm confused, i've read the GPLV2 (and lesser GPL and all of them) over and over again, but i don't get it, and maybe you can: i'm creating a website for a client. I get paid for that. When i'm done, the app won't be open source, it is solely meant to be used by my client. Now i want to use a nice user control in it, but the control is...