I am creating an addin for Outlook, and I would like to use some standard microsoft's icons in my addin's GUI - for example, outlook has 'reply to' icon that people already know well, and I would like to use the exact same icon for replying action in my addin. Is it legal to do this? According to http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/pe...
I've been commissioned to perform a review of an application. Company A buys software from Company B. The software crashes often and is not performant. Company A hires me to review software and to inform them if the software is sound. Company B forbids me from viewing (or having access to) their source code citing that they own the i...
I've been approached by a group that want me to build a website of questionable legality. Can I as the developer get in trouble? Or will the people who asked me to develop it get in trouble? Edit: basically it's a site where people might be upset that they are on the site... and could sue. All content would be user generated though. ...
Is it allowed to use ideas from open source in closed source software? I've met people who say to not even look at open source (GPL and LGPL were mentioned) if you write closed source software. ...
I am working on a contract (in USA) where I will become an employee of a company and provide them with a software solution for their operation. In the contract it is clearly indicated that I am building an application which all codes are owned by me and copyright is under my name and the employer is licensed to use the technology and has...
I was wondering if it was legal, in the UK, to do this. Basically there are hundreds of websites that just display contact details of businesses, like online directories. If I were to scrape these kinds of pages for the details to put on a different directory site would I be commiting a crime? I was thinking of using HtmlAgilityPack ...
Is it legal for me to include gdiplus.dll and msvcp90.dll with my application? Note that I intend to release my application under the MIT license. ...
Sorry if this isnt suited to this site, I wasnt really sure about it. Basically I have a 3rd-party application which is free to use but which says its not redistributable which I was hoping our group could use but I am unclear if making it available on a purely internal network share for the group would violate this or not? Is something...
We are about to start a competitive product and to do so we need to look at the competition. If someone you know has a legal copy of a competitive product, is it illegal to make some screenshots in order to remember certain things for your solution? What do I need to know? Thank you. ...
We need to send some source codes outside of the company and I have to add header to each file with notice which explicitly state that source code is our property and nobody is allowed to do anything with it. Do you know any header templates which I can use? ...
I was trying to make some code I wrote be published under LGPL. I included the appropriate header in each file, but StyleCop told me to include a copyright notice also. But I think that "Copyright. All rights reserved." is not intended to free software. Should I remove it? ...
I'm working with a designer who has supplied some font files as swfs for sifr. Could someone explain why this file format is being used for a font file? Does this have to do with legal restrictions about supplying regular font files for download from a web site - i.e. by providing them as swfs they are less usable for anything except...
I am working with a designer who wants to provide Carlson & Georgia as swfs for sifr in a web application. After reviewing this reference on open type fonts, I do not see any reference to these fonts. Are there potential legal ramifications to providing these fonts as swf files on a web site for sifr to use or are these fonts common en...
A company has issued the company I work for a cease and desist for a certain term we have been using to describe many products on the website. So we are currently going to do as they say and replace that term with a different term. But the problem is, the search feature on our web site is powered by Google site search. And when I make a ...
Is SQL Express 2008 available for corporate, business and government use? Are there restrictions I am not reading about? I know it is free, but I just want to make sure I am not stepping on any terms of use. Maybe I missed it when I clicked around Microsoft’s site, but I didn't see any terms referencing use restrictions specifically. I...
Is copying an API a breach of copyright? Say for example that a proprietary spreadsheet software exposes a programmatic interface with a nice, easy to use and learn, flexible yet deep API. Can I implement the same API to another spreadsheet program? Or to csv files or database tables, or whatever? Or would the API (with a completely d...
I know this is going to be long but I felt like I needed to explain the whole situation and my concerns in detail. Thanks in advance for reading and answering this question! I'd like to write an application that depends on GPL licensed libraries or applications. However, I'm not keen on licensing my own code under GPL alone because I th...
Problem: Great graphics, nice app. But no sound. I want sound. UPDATE: All cleared now. Soundsnap.com does not exclude iPhone apps. Tasos Frantzolas responded that there are no copyright problems with sounds on soundsnap.com. There has been a misunderstanding because a huge content provider of sound snap told me to not use the sounds i...
On the iPhone, a unique identifier is available which is guaranteed to be unique and is tied to the serial number. This is the one: [[UIDevice currentDevice] uniqueIdentifier] According to the documentation, there are restrictions on using it: "It is guaranteed to be unique for every device but cannot publically be tied to a user acc...
I am using the Calibri font in a game that I am developing for the iPhone, and I'm unsure if I need to pay for a license for it. I use the font in Adobe Photoshop to generate textures that are then used and displayed at runtime. I will not embed the font binary in the game. Do I need a license for the Calibri font? If I do, does anyone...