Situation: I want to pick a license for an open-source project. Having considered GPL vs BSD/MIT, I prefer GPL because it protects the open-source-ness of software. However, I prefer something less restrictive. I'm particularly amused at the fact that different versions of GPL are not compatible!! I want the software to stay FOSS, ...
I've seen some software (a Joomla component, to be exact) for sale on a web site. The web site says it is licensed under the GNU GPL2. However it also says you need to pay for every site you use the software on (with bulk discounts). I know it's perfectly acceptable to sell software under the GPL, however the license implies that the so...
I have a small desktop application that depends on VLC, an application licensed under GPL. It does not link with any VLC libs, but it creates a VLC subprocess and communicates via stdin and stdout streams. My application will be used by a number of customers. It is not going to be a publicly available tool. What does the GPL require me ...
I own a piece of proprietary hardware purchased from a company. They also provide a Linux kernel module for it, but it is incompatable with my kernel version and I'd like to get the source code to it to fix it. The License file that comes with the software claims the software is under a proprietary license. However during my efforts to m...
Hi, I'm having problems in interpreting the license of Typolight (A CMS released under LGPL license). The project owner has made it mandatory to print a comment in the homepage of the frontend of the site which mentions the use of Typolight CMS - http://www.typolight.org/forum/topic/8283.html Can anyone please throw some light on this?...
If I have a AGPL licensed code, can I accept a patch that contains GPL code? I would think you can't do the reverse, accept AGPL code into a GPL codebase, but usually you can move from a less restrictive license to a more restrictive license. ...
I have just made some changes to a jQuery ui widget and I would like to release them. I'm not concerned about releasing the changes under the same license, but I would like to know how I should indicate copyright for my changes? The original copyright statement (below) only refers to an authors.txt file. /* * jQuery UI Draggable 1.7....
I love the GPL as much as the next guy, but it should help to share code, not prevent to do it. I am currently in a situation where I have to provide a python free from GNU readline, which is GPL, otherwise it would turn all my python GPL, something I don't want (I'm going BSD here). I tried to look around for both mac and linux. On mac...
Can I, without permission of anybody, relicense some software from MIT/BSD license to GPL license legally? For example, may I take the Google Chrome web browser and re-release it under the GPL (under another name)? It is just "what if" question. I will not do this, I promise. ...
We are developing a computer vision library, which we are releasing under the LGPL license. We are planning to incorporate in the next release code licensed under other open source licenses, like GPL, that allow free usage for research and educational purposes. Can we include these third-party source files without any modification, keepi...
Based on some Linux distributions can do commercial OS? Can I distribute such a system without source code? ...
Please recommended some good open source C++ projects, and please add your remarks on these projects Thanks ...
I'm creating a new project based on a previous Perl script that is covered by GPLv2. What is the "correct" way to provide proper attribution to original author? For the life of me I can't find this anywhere, even on the GPL site. ...
Hi, I'm developing a commercial application and would like to include ffmpeg to extract thumbnails from videos. ffmpeg is licenced under LGPL 2.1. I would like to know how I can include ffmpeg in my software installer while meeting the requirements of LGPL 2.1. If it makes any difference I haven't modified the ffmpeg exe in any way. ...
I'm sorry for the naive question, but I'm a bit clueless about free-software licensing. Is there any problem with using GPL-licensed front-end software (jquery + plugins, for example) on a for-profit subscription-based web application that has a closed-source back-end, so long as you keep your changes to the plugins open? Would such a...
Microsoft creates their windows and MFC DLL library, etc. An open source develop write a new MFC application and release the source code as GPL. The app has to link with the MS DLL/libraries to run in Windows, but I don't think anyone can argue that we now have the right to force the Microsoft's GPL their DLL. Does this mean the GPL...
I'm writing a .NET library for the Stack Overflow pre-alpha API. After uploading some early code to a new project over at Google Code, I set the license info to GPL and added the appropriate license disclaimers to the code files. After posting an announcement on Meta, though, Kevin Montrose told me that LGPL is better. I have also looked...
Hi, does anyone know of a good OEM zip utility that we can use to integrate into our release package. We dont want to use GNU (GPL). Cheers Pete ...
Perl's Artistic License 2.0 says that the source code distribution may be relicensed so long as the new license is: (ii) a license that permits the licensee to freely copy, modify and redistribute the Modified Version using the same licensing terms that apply to the copy that the licensee received, and requires that the Sou...
Hello. I've read existing questions about this topic on here already, but none of them seem to address my question so far. Here is the situation: We are developing a closed-source/proprietary software for a few customers. Our software is written in C++ and uses Qt 4.6, thus it makes use of the LGPL licensed version of Qt. The software...