Is there a risk of legal trouble if you include GPL or LGPL licensed icons in a closed source software? Would it force it to become open source just to include the icon? Does it matter if the icon is compiled as a resource? Are the creative common licensed icons safe to use if you follow the attribution rules specified by the licen...
The company I work for develop and sell a proprietary, closed-source software application. Our application uses third party open-source projects licensed under open source licenses such as GPL and LGPL. For instance, we use Hibernate as an ORM. Sometimes we modify and build upon these third party projects. What is required of us to not...
This question is a follow up on one of my other questions, Can I legally Incorporating GPL & LGPL, open-sourced software in a proprietary, closed-source project? Many of the conditions of the LGPL license are based on the notion of distribution. My company does business as a consultant. We are contracted to create software, which we del...
I am writing a small general purpose library, which i would like to use in my BSD/X11 licensed project. I want to include globalisation support in it, specifficaly, i would like to use Glib::ustring from glibmm, which is licensed under LGPL. Here comes the question: With regards to BSD/X11 being more permissive than LGPL, can i use this ...
I am writing code that links against an LGPL library that I've modified. What is the scope of LGPL in such case? Will I have to make my code public under LGPL? Is it possible to keep my source code proprietary still? I have no issues with making the modified third-party library public. ...
Hi guys, I'm the previous founder of Gaiaware and Gaia Ajax Widgets and when I used to work there we had this rhetoric (which I have confirmed with some very smart FOSS people is correct) that when using a GPL Ajax library you're basically "distributing" the JavaScript which in turn makes the GPL viral clause kick in and forces people to...
I know many developers won't even touch LGPL but only use MIT or New BSD licensed libraries. But exactly HOW many? I would use LGPL in my own projects, am I "alone" or "close to alone"...? The platform I am most interested in knowing about it .Net developers... As in; "How many percent of the world's .Net developers would use an LGPL ...
If I was to integrate a third-party GPLv3,v2 or LGPL django app in my django project, would the licence apply to the complete project or just the third-party application I'm using? ...
How the [L]GPL license should be applied to Java and C# code ? I know that when Sun JDK become GPL, they did special exceptions for standard libraries. So, if I cannot open my application source and still want to distribute it ... ... could I use GPL'ed library (by import'ing its classes)? ... could I use LGPL'ed one ... could my app...
I'm working on a web app where I need icons to represent Tables, Views, Stored Procs, and Functions. Where is a good source for these types of icons in a free/cc/LGPL like license? This is a good example of icons I need (but not free): via redgate UPDATE: Please just keeping adding links/answers to this question as you find new sources...
Hi, Leave some thoughts about what are all the positive and negative things to use LGPL QT for commercial applications. ...
I am looking for a FFT library with a license that allow me to include it in a commercial C++ software. Free would be nice. (Intel IPPS is 199$ per head, which is a bit expensive for the number of developper that will be compiling it.) Anybody has good experience with such a FFT library? I found this page, which list a lot of librari...
I've written an application I'd like to release as open source, but i'm not sure what to license it under. It's all my own code apart from jQuery which is GPL 2.1 and TinyMCE editor which is LGPL 2.1. I'd like to distribute both libraries with my application if possible. Can I release under GPL2.1 ? All I want to do is license appropri...
I have a discussion with a friend regarding the Lesser GNU General Public License, LGPL, for server side code - in this case a PHP library. He argues that since the PHP application is not distributed to the user - it is merely running on the server - he doesn't have to re-distribute the library sources after he modified it. This is basic...
If I've got some code that I'd like to share and make open source. I'm not a lawyer. What are the big differences between these choices? LGPL - GNU Lesser General Public License MIT License Apache License ...
Hi I have a web app(commercial) that uses a component(LGPL). This component has a plug in architecture. I have now created a plug for this component that use a library (LGPL). This library uses a data source which is GPL. Does this mean I have to free the source for my web app? or is just necessary to release the source for the plug i...
I want to make an Application that uses RxTx version 2.2pre2 to work with Serial Ports. What are the Licence restrictions, since it is an "LGPL v 2.1 + Linking Over Controlled Interface" licenced library if I don't use the Sun's javax.comm.* interface, but the RxTx's own gnu.io.* when importing into Java Files? ...
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... ...
In reference to this question and that Qt is Qt GNU LGPL v. 2.1 , would it be correct to say/simplify: Yes you can, but if you "enhance" the the Qt API you must publish it also? ...
I like a library released under BSD license. This library is not actively maintained since late 2007. Can I fork the library and relicensing under an Creative Commons license? The original author must be informed? Are there problems other than these? EDIT Based on the feedback provided by several answers I'm providing more details ...