Can I decide to change the license of my published GPL application to something closed-source [1]? Can I integrate it into my own commercial application? All code in the published GPL application written by me and there is no 3rd party GPL libraries in it. Do I still keep the whole ownership of the code even after the GPL release? [...
Some softwares say "free for personal use" but not for commercial use. From a freelancer's prespective only he uses this software personally not by others or any company or organization. He uses software to make money himself. ...
I have quite a generous bunch of software which I obtained through some internal site at my university. Operating systems, developer tools and other stuff from Microsoft. Although I've graduated some time ago I still have access to that page, all download links, product keys etc. New things also come so the page does not seem to be "froz...
Hi everyone I am wondering how guys out there work on limiting number of users to a web application. Sometimes you may say you want to limit the web app to only handle say 20 users at a time. Our company sells their applications based on a number of licenses, but we are not sure what the behaviour could be in a web app. I've seen the s...
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...
The experiment I am currently working uses a software base with a complicated source history and no well defined license. It would be a considerable amount of work to rationalize things and release under a fixed license. It is also intended to run a a random unixish platform, and only some of the libc's we support have GNU getline, but ...
The company I work for is developing a closed source kernel module (.ko file). This module has to make calls to functions which are contained in a gpl2 module. Basically we have a situation like this: // GPL 2 kernel module (gpl.c -> gpl.ko) void a_function(void) { // ... } EXPORT_SYMBOL(a_function) // Closed Source module (closed.c ...
I'm giving serious thought to releasing a programming book i wrote as open source to it's targeted community but i'm confused as to what such licenses give people permission to do. I also want to keep the original copyright. For example, this is what i would like people to be able to do with my work: Download and read it free of charg...
First of all I'm sorry for such a question, I look over the internet and google searches but there so many different ideas out there. In a mail-list I actually see that people claim that one need to buy Mono license to use it in a commercial tool. Can I use Mono XSP in a commercial tool, does licensing permits that? I'm not good with r...
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'm developing a propietary (non Open Source) Web Application in ASP.NET, and I want to use the Look And Feel of Joomla (images, control distribution, etc.). Is this illegal? I'm violating the license doing this? ...
The reason for this, I find myself being asked to make replacement classes for boost's classes in a commercial project. And I am asked to test them against the boost class's behaviour. This makes absolutely no sense to me. I seldom see a license as open as boost's. Maybe there will be added functionality in the future, but since boost'...
If I've purchased one license for Windows XP, is it legal to run a second copy on the same machine (in a second partition, under Linux) with vmware? ...
I have a XML file describing the name of the company the product is licensed for, the version and some extra information. Looking something like this <Licence> <Name>sdfsdf</Name> <Version>1.2.1.1</Version> <NumberOfServer>4</NumberOfServer> </Licence> I then sign this fiel using a private key and get <Licence> <Name>sdfsdf<...
Is it legal to publish iPhone applications under the GPL v3? Obviously, you can't use other people's GPL source, but is it okay if I hold the copyright to the entire source? If GPL is not okay, is MIT/BSD/etc. okay? ...
I am interested in studying license management patterns and coding techniques in detail. ...
I am curious to know if anyone has figured out a way to create the server portion of DRM in an open source manner while allowing for DRM clients to be closed. I understand that if the client were open source, it would be easy to remove the DRM checks, but I believe the server doesn't suffer from the same challenge. ...
As I understand it software being open source does not prevent you from selling it (does this depend on the type of license?) but is this a good idea? For my pet project the target audience is for the most part non-programmers who wouldn't know how to compile the source anyway, but I still want to keep it open mostly for possible future...
As a follow up to my previous question, and as an extension to this question, Is it possible to take GPL and add the restriction that distribution is limited to source files and not compiled version for both the original and derived works? In the same way that you can use GPL programs internally as long as they're not distributed, you c...
We currently generate reports in MS Excel format. Our client just called to ask if we could generate those reports in OpenOffice format instead. Their reason is that their entire office is being purged of Microsoft Office, as their license has expired, and they are no longer willing to renew their license. As a consequence, they want ...