I'm looking to do some testing of loan calculations on the Mac. I know what an amortization schedule is, and yes, I know how to convert an algorithm into code, but I'm don't want to worry about screwing up the rounding, or reinventing the wheel. Are there any Open Source C or Objective-C libraries that handle such calculations? I know...
My understanding is that with LGPL, can I link and use an LGPL library for commercial use, as long as I don't copy code? That make sense for programs you compile to binary, but what about JavaScript? I want to use the Greybox plugin for JQuery in my commercial website but don't know how to do that legally since it's LGPL. ...
I would like to monitor the use of mallocs and frees in an application by using the malloc and free hooks. Here's the documentation http://www.gnu.org/s/libc/manual/html_node/Hooks-for-Malloc.html From the example page you can see that my_malloc_hook transiently switches the malloc hook off (or to the previous hook in the chain) before...
Our company is changing the direction in which the business is being run, and is now thinking of selling our hardware, while releasing most of the code under the (L)GPL license (?), however certain parts will be released as closed source libraries in order to protect our IP. I've been reading and trying to understand the (L)GPL license ...
If I understood the GPL/LGPL and other similar license FAQ's correctly, I can put my name in a License file and/or add a copyright notice with my name in the source files, and that's pretty much a done deal. But how can one claim to be the author of 'xyz' software if the copyright notice only states the authors First and Last name? What...
Greetings, I'm looking for a MIME library, which is available under the LGPL. After some googling, I found VMime. After browsing their site some, I came across the Licensing page, which confuses me a bit. Firstly, they offer VMime under the terms of the GPL, which is pretty clear. Secondly, they offer VMime under a "commercial" licens...
Possible Duplicate: Using LGPL library in a commercial Java application Hello guys! There is a project under the GNU Lesser GPL license. I want to use this project in my application. Can I sell my application using this license? ...
There are a couple of files I want to use from Doctrine, which is licensed under LGPL, in an open-source project of mine. If I do this, do I have to include the entire Doctrine library in my package, or would I be ok just including those few files? ...
Hi, Why are many libraries LGPL nowadays rather than GPL ? Who is enjoying the benefits ? Thx in advans, Karthik Balaguru ...
I don't know much about the LGPL/GPL when it comes to distributing programs and I have a few questions (without a Qt license) 1. If I made a program, could I statically link the librarys to the exe so I have a single file to distribute when A) The program does not cost anything, it's just being distributed (closed source or open ...
Question: If I release a program under the LGPL, can I charge for the sourcecode? The idea is sell the program, and who wants can buy the source, too, at an additional price. ...
I want to start an OSS project but rather than do it completely from scratch I'd like to combine other, existing, OSS projects and target a specific platform. In this case there is an LPGL and MS-PL OSS project and the platform is Silverlight. I have two pieces of software that I want to use the resulting library for. One is educational...
I have a PHP application which I have developed and released under the LGPL, currently on the bottom of the web pages it has a copyright line. Is this allowed or can I only put the copyright line in the source file. Another part to this question is under LGPL is the user allowed to remove the Copyright line from the web pages, as long a...
I would like to ask you some questions about LGPL, I've used a library written on PHP with license LGPL, I had made software and I'm not license it using LGPL or GPL, The libraries is a class' form I had modified the libraries and made a class to access the library, and I access the library through that class, but I'm not make it inheri...
any future plan for rhino to change licensing to lgpl? currently it is gpl, also mean if we use it we required to open source our application right? ...
With everything legal and in line with the ethical questions in software development, is it allowed to use an open source product in my software that I charge a fee for when selling? Scenario: I've developed an PHP Content Management System (CMS) and use some Linux executables licensed under GPL or LGPL in my CMS to accomplish various t...
My Rails application uses the Rails SVN bindings here which are distributed under the terms of the LGPL. By using these bindings, am I therefore required to distribute my Rails project? ...
I've recently been working with an opensource library for a commercial product. The opensource code is distributed from the website of the company who sells the proprietary product as a zip file. The library is a (direct) port to C# of the original library which is in Java. As such, it uses methods instead of getter/setter properties. T...
We want to use either the FCK/CKeditor or the TinyMCE editor in our CRM application. We charge the customer use of the CRM system which is bespoke to use and them. I noticed both the editors have GPL and LGPL licenses. However CKEditor has a Closed License too in addition to the LGPL. My questions are: 1) Although we don't sell our cod...
I am having trouble understanding the terms of the LGPL in light of a program that is not written in C or C++. They speak of libraries being linked and 'derivitive' works. If I were to package a php program and sell it, but within the program the deployment mechanism used the phing package (full up with the entire contents as is and un...