My primary responsibility is a software developer, but I have also been tasked with doing the first level technical interviews of perspective clients. I enjoy it, so I am glad to do it, but I am finding it challenging to objectively screen candidates. I have a list of programming "trivia" questions and even some programming challenges ...
I used reflector to view the code of the generic dictionary collection (Dictionary<TKey, TValue>) and modified that code to make it thread safe. I want to post this code on my blog so others can review it (and tell me if I did something wrong) and also use it in their projects if they want. Legally speaking, am I allowed to do so? I modi...
I want to develop a free standard (free as in non-proprietary) along with a free reference implementation. Please understand that I don't want to go into depth of my idea (yet). It is, though, a serous idea. I've been now working nearly a year during my spare time on the specification and started with a reference implementation. Do I n...
Say if I own a blog site for multiple users like wordpress, say blogsss.com, and every user hosts their blog under a subdomain *.blogsss.com. UserA post a JPEG that UserA claims it is under Creative Commons, but actually it isn't. Then UserB, C, and D use that JPEG, without knowing it is actually not under Creative Commons. A few mo...
I was looking through patents authored by Lars Bak, when I realized a lot of them cover components of the the Sun JVM, HotSpot, etc. Now that parts Sun's stack is being released under FLOSS licenses, how does this affect people who are forking or using forks of this open source software? Are they not in violation of Sun's patents? ...
Running a business / being self-employed we all have to deal occassionally with clients who become unresponsive. E.g. you send them a UI mockup asking for feedback and all you get back is silence. You ask about some details about the feature in their application that you're working on and you don't hear from them for a month. I try to n...
Many corporate coding standards require a large comment header and footer in each and every file. Something like: // MyFile.cpp // // Copyright (c) 200x Company ABC // // This file is a copyrighted... blah blah blah // <... some code ...> // Copyright (c) 200x Company ABC // // Change history: // 1.0 - Blah // 1.1 - B...
I posted an open source project to Google Code a while back under the MIT License. Recently someone told me they saw a project on GitHub that looked "remarkably similar" to mine. So I go on there to check it out and it looks like they took all of my code and replaced the author name everywhere and posted it as their own. Although I'm hap...
Have you developed an app for the iPhone platform, and gone through all the hoops (both legal and technical) to have Apple distribute your app via the AppStore? How was the experience for you? How long did it take to make your completed app available in iTunes? Did you register as yourself, create a company, or use a "DBA" tax ID? An...
I'm currently taking a class, and I'd like to release the software I've developed for it under the GPL. It's nothing special (in my opinion), but someone might find some use for it. I was wondering if I'm somehow restricted because I did it as a class assignment? Also, to what extent would the restrictions apply. Am I not allowed to ...
I have been looking at stacked and it seems that it is marginalizing the heavy financial and intellectual investments made by the creators of Stackoverflow itself. I have been beaten down pretty heavily for bringing up this topic but I think it is an important question programmers, designers, and investors need to consider. I really wa...
My company is considering distributing a sql profiler with our commercial software to make support and diagnostics easier. A few questions I have: Do we have to ship the source code with our setup? Or is hosting it on our website or a link to the project website enough? Can we create a shortcut to the GPL tool or is that called derived...
Does anyone know if it is difficult to change your company entity and tax id for an iphone app that has been submitted and approved? ...
Can I use upx packer to compress a commercial program? Or does GPL restrict me from doing that? ...
Hi friends. :) Can we use an icon under "GPL" or "LGPL" licence for commercial work? I don't want to sell icon. I just want to use icon for my web design work. but I do this web design work for my client, so I take money for the web design Thanks a lot... ...
The following is a clause in the new-style BSD license: Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. I've translated some BSD-licensed C code into the D programming language and a...
I have put up the sources of my site on GitHub for easy maintenance. While the majority of the content is in a wordpress database, there are a few html files which contain some content. Since these files are in a open source repository, I was wondering if I can enforce a copyright on them. ...
My company (with whom I've been working for the last 10 years) is asking me to sign a new confidentiality agreement with the following paragraph: You hereby assign to the Company by way of future assignment all Copyright, design right and other proprietary rights (if any) for the full terms thereof throughout the World in re...
Let's say I hire someone to build an app on the iPhone and it turned out to be a cash cow. What's stopping the developer from releasing a tweaked version that you paid him to make? Is there some sort of contract the developer has to sign? ...
If i delivered a website to a client and the client decides to do fraudulent activity with the website such as a e-commerce site would i in anyway be held accountable? this hasn't happened its just a question that was raised in my head :) ...