Sourceforge requires that you state whether your OSS uses encryption: This project DOES incorporate, access, call upon or otherwise use encryption. Posting of open source encryption is controlled under U.S. Export Control Classification Number "ECCN" 5D002 and must be simultaneously reported by email to the U.S. government. You are r...
Do you know any well-written commercial licenses of web applications written in PHP? I'm going to review the PHPDocs appended to each file in our private library and I'm looking some inspiration to do it right. How to avoid unauthorised copying, reusing and so on. There are plenty good examples for Open Source Software but I haven't fo...
Legalese can be considered an extremely inefficient language, and it certainly has ambiguities. What attempts exist out there to use programming languages (or any symbolic logic approaches, for that matter) to model legal code (such as laws and contracts)? ...
I'd like to use iTextSharp for PDF manipulation. I need it to run under medium trust (webserver) and to be free of charge (sice this is a very small project), therefore there is not much competition. Unfortunately, since I need it for a commercial project, I cannot use the AGPL introduced with version 5.0. Do you know if I may use the 4...
If I pay someone to write some software for me and our contract doesn't specify, do I own the rights to the source code, or does the company who wrote the software? Who does the intellectual property belong to in this situation? I'm specifically interested in the answer as it applies in the United Kingdom. ...
Hi, According to http://www.macobserver.com/editorial/2003/03/04.2.shtml Apple has patented pretty much everything related to UI design. I can certainly see so many systems using the same idealogy, so, I wonder what those patents really mean -- aren't they there to stop people from implementing those design ideas? Can someone really pat...
Hello. Suppose, there is a hypothetic software product "ExampleProduct" on the market with BAD quality and BAD support. But the company selling it, does not care. "ExampleProduct" is a registered trademark (I hope it is not, actually. This is just a name taken to make an example, if you get me ;))) ). Is that legal to create www.anti-...
I was hoping GPLv3 would make GPLv2 easier to understand for the layman, but when I came across the phrase "propagate by procuring conveyance" what the heck is that supposed to mean!?!? I spent a lot of quality time with a thesaurus and tried to understand this alone. Given the effort required to understand a sentence, I'm quite certai...
I'd like to ask this question in two standpoints. As a library developer, I don't want my work to be used in source closed web apps while most web apps are source closed. (And they are also worthless to distribute, generally a web app is individual-dependent). The trendency of moving towards to cloud-computing, seems there will be less ...
hi everyone, I want to go into law but I need an undergrad before I can do so. I live in Ontario, Canada. I want to study both web development and design. Luckily, I came across this program: http://www.bitdegree.ca/index.php?Section=Course&Item=IMD&Page=Default# But i don't think its an actual information technology degree. ...
I want to write, and sell, a book about a particular piece of software, in particular the open-source community edition. It would be a how-to/tutorial type book Do I need the company's permission to write the book? Can I use the name of the software in the title of the book? Regarding the vote to close, there are over 1000 questions ...
If you have a site that uses Javascript with no mention of a license in the Javascript, is it legal to take that Javascript, package it, and redistribute it? I'm looking to write a Google Chrome extension for Stackoverflow -- I've recently requested permissions on master.js to eliminate this ambiguity; but, now I'm curious if I had to d...
I have a roommate that refuses to stop using p2p like limewire. The internet connection is in my name. If he gets caught, am I the one that gets the law suit? If you were in this situation what would you do? I don't want to just ban him from my internet, I have to live with this guy for the rest of the year, and this would be a const...