I was wondering if the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike licenses expects software that uses it to be distributed under a copyleft software license. Does it make a difference if the media is just linked and can be changed or if the media is embedded inside the software? Bonus questions: Would the GPL conflict with the Creative Co...
The languages used in the licensing are very confusing, and also it is getting very time consuming to read salient features. Just need a license with which source code is open/re-distributable/fork-able (good if the parent project gets credit, non-monetary or monetary eg donations). But I shall be able to have control, put a stop list ...
This is the first time I'm creating an open-source project, and I've decided (based on this question) to host it on Google Code. Now, I'm asked which of several open-source licenses I'd like to use. I'm not interested in digging into them to figure them out, so: Which one should I pick? ...
I'm working with a developer who has placed his faith in a license scheme that makes little sense to me. He wants to tie a desktop application to a hardware component value, one of which is easily changed, the MAC address of the ethernet controller. Now, I know no one likes licenses, he does want to protect his hard work and I can under...
I'm looking for a license that has the following requirements: is viral. your code must be open source. you must let the author know and credit the author. if you distribute and you use this source code you must use this license. even if you re-implement but you use the same ideas and concepts then you must also use this license. even ...
I'm looking for an open-source or commercial Adobe Flex module to do user Login, Registration, and License management. The back-end can be either on my site (PHP and MySQL) or secure 3'rd party site. User Interface would have the following: Register (new user) Log-in (registered user) Purchase a new license (logged-in user) Apply the...
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...
What does it mean to double license code? I can't just put both licenses in the source files. That would mean that I mandate users to follow the rules of both of them, but the licenses will probably be contradictory (otherwise there'd be no reason to double license). I guess this is something like in cryptographic chaining, cipher = cr...
Hello: I am inquiring into the licensing pertaining to distributing the jdk/jre from sun. The reason I ask is that I would like to provide a client with an ISO disk image that includes my application plus the jdk or jre dependency. Any help is greatly appreciated. Cheers, Christiaan ...
What are the differences between GNU LGPL v2.1 and GNU LGPL v3? I know I can read the legal text and compare them, but it's a pain to understand these legal stuffs. Can you give in a few bullet points the major changes in human language :) ? EDIT: I know the differences between GNU GPL v2 and GNU GPL v3. I want to know the specific ch...
Hi, We're releasing a shareware application. Whats the easiest way to add a simple licensing/copy protection scheme? We don't mind paying for the results. I'm particularly interested in what has worked in your experience, and what things to prioritize (or avoid) in a licensing scheme. Here is my shortlist (if you could add to it I'd ...
Hi, I am having trouble understanding the usage permissions of open source. I read somewhere that GPL or LGPL enforces that software that uses GPL software must also be released open-source. I want to create an application that uses some open-source image recognition library. Can I sell this application or does it have to be open source...
Hello developers, I'm going to implement license key generator on my website but I've very few knowledges of php! In my (Cocoa) application I've integrate a system verification that use the RSA_sign function (in C#) ... I would like to use the paypal IPN notification system to automatically generate and send to my users their license ke...
I always get confused with licenses, I'm reading up again, but I'm sure someone out there already understands this and may be able to explain it more clearly. I'm trying to get my company to use geodjango, and being a typical large enterprise company they don't want to open-source the resulting project. And therefore opposed to touchin...
Hi All, I'm writing a Rails application which will have reasonably regular updates -- nothing abnormal here. I face a problem, however, due to the distribution model. Basically the application will be sold for stand-alone "intranet" installation due to its "add-on" nature (it's basically a web interface for an existing, database-drive...
Have you ever purchased a Flash Player License for commercial applications? Could you tell me more about procedures, prices, etc.? ...
Thinking about signing up for $100 Windows 2008 Virtual Machine Hosting Account I am going to be running a Web Server (IIS) and ASP.NET site that taps into a SQL Server what license am I supposed to buy? Never had to pay for SQL before. Always been paid for by my company. How do CALs get factored into the situation when you are running a...
Does anyone have any experience querying FlexLM? (At a minimum) I need to be able to tell if a license is available for a particular application. Previously this was done by checking what processes were running, but if I can somehow query FlexLM, that would be more elegant! ...
This is mostly a theoritical question, but I'm wondering what the proper way would be to accomplish the following. Assume I have a few utilities, functions, and reference implementations that I use when building a web site for a client. Some of "my" reference code is re-used as-is, some is slightly modified. Also, as part of the agree...
I am working on an application that will have support for plug-ins. I am wondering if I can apply the LGPL on the application, or is the LGPL only for libraries? The main point is that I want the application to be roughly GPL, but that this is not enforced on plug-ins or scripts that the application loads. However, the GPL considers plu...