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'm currently embarking on a new web-project. I've already decided what domain name I want to register. However, I'm still a bit nervous about registering the domain name. There's someone else from a remote country with an international trademark which is very similar to my prospective domain name. His trademark consists of two words, ...
I am an indy dev/student and I recently had a mandate to build an client-server iPhone application for a students association (for a low amount of money). The contract stipulates that a fully functional application has to be delivered, and must have the following features : (list of end user features). There's no mention of source code...
Are there any legal implications to making a web app compatible with patented file types? eInstruction's ExamView (www.eInstruction.com) reads, edits, and makes "ExamView Test" files. Are there any legal implications to making my web app capable of reading/editing such files? ...
Practice at other companies I've been at has been that using GPL software on the server side (e.g. not distributed at all) was okay, and didn't taint our code or IP. However, there are a lot of people who get very nervous about this when it comes to a potential acquisition of a company, and a worry that any use of GPL'd code (not distri...
I see the websites displaying other websites in their website using iframe. Example: http://www.bigresource.com/Tracker/Track-vb-c9WiXD1ijR/ this site displays codeguru.com content. Is this legally allowed? Should they need permission from codeguru.com explicitly to display their content? ...
Do I need a Contribution Agreement for my BSD licensed project? Does it protect me, or the contributors? Should I be wary of contributing to a project that does not provide a Contribution Agreement? I have potential contributors who've never seen a Contribution Agreement before and are wary to sign one. I also want to contribute to som...
If I include code that is LGPL (GNU Lesser General Public License) does my overall project also have to be opensource? what all does LGPL include? ...
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? ...
I did some work on my personal laptop for a company that went into liquidation. I have a copy of the code and the company's server's etc. got formatted and sold as hardware to pay us off. The code can be quite useful and the liquidators can't be bothered recovering value from it. Do I get to keep it? I have started recoding some of it a...
There's an excellent discussion here on how to have your checkbox on a RoR site without having a column in the database. What I'm wondering is if I need to have such a column in the first place. It does seem common sense not to have it (if you didn't check the box, you don't get to use the app). But I also know that common sense tends...
Hi, as a student that is planning to create a startup, I've been developing a Java based Web Framework that aims to simplify developing scalable web applications. It's been a long time since I started to work on this project and as a seasoned web developer I'm happy with the result. I was planning to use this framework for my future web ...