I'm reviewing some jQuery plugins for distribution with closed source (on the server, anyhow) commercial applications. One thing I'm noticing is that there isn't any standard license that covers all plugins. After reading through the legal BS of a couple licenses, I'm feeling very glad I didn't go through with getting a law degree. ...
I have a small pet project under development that uses both Apache Wicket and Alex Gorbachev's Syntax Highlighter. These are released on the Apache and LGPL licenses respectively. I would like to put this project up on github (or similar), but am not an expert on licensing issues. Under what licenses would I be permitted to release thi...
I'm considering using a jQuery plugin in a commercial project. The plugin (datepicker) is "dual licensed": Dual licensed under the MIT (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php) and GPL (http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php) licenses. Now the MIT license is pretty permissive license, allowing me to ...
I'm planning to develop an application that make use of data from Yahoo Finance. I'm concerned about copyright and licensing for the use of their data. Can anyone tell me if anyone's done something similar? ...
I wrote a library and I would like to make it open-source, but I am afraid of others stealing it and taking ownership of it. I am very new to licensing software. What should I do and what are the steps in licensing my software. ...
I found some code on the web. The web page doesn't make any mention of a license, and the download doesn't make any mention of a license. What are the license implications of using that code in the US? Is there such a thing as an implicit license? ...
I've written what I believe are some useful classes that I'd like to release into the wild. These are small enough that I'm strongly considering just releasing them under the WTFPL. Part of the reason for writing these is for a project that I'm working on which I would eventually like to release open source under most likely the BSD or M...
I've seen code from time to time that has a clause in the license or at the top of the code that mentions that the author is not liable and does not guarantee that the code is fit for production, or something to that effect. I'm no expert in legality and licensing, I'm just wondering why this is done. Have there actually been cases wher...
I'd like to relicense my open source project under a non-viral GPL incompatible license. Which license should I choose? ...
Hi, I am an author of an Open Source project, which is released under GPL2. I start to work on it alone for 2 years. In every of my source code files, I attach the following information on the top of it. /* * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as ...
Hello, I have a piece of Windows/C++ application which includes a hard coded expiry date, so that the release expires and stops running on a certain date like, 30 of august 2009. Obviously the user can take back the system time to work around this limitation. Is there a good way to stop my application running if the date has passed ev...
I'm wondering if some people connected to some commercial library development would be willing to post the text of their licences. The idea is so people can cut and paste parts for their own licence and comment on what they think of different bits. To keep this sane, only shortish licences (links to long ones would be ok). ...
I am working on an iPhone application and understand some difficulties in releasing a GPL application through the app store. The license states that a program forking-and-linking to another program licensed under the GPL doesn't attach any requirements to that program. Moreover, it also says "If the program dynamically links plug...
Possible Duplicate: How to protect dlls? I am wondering how I may protect my DLL files from being used by other people. By "used" I mean, referenced/imported or whatever into projects and the functions and variables inside used. I only wish it to be used by my applications... is there a way to protect it? ...
Im in the middle of developing a product that i will hopefully be attempting to sell towards the end of the year and i was just wondering what the best way to handle the licensing is. My Product is going to be a downloadable asp.net web application and at the moment looks like there will be a free version and a premium version. Im thin...
Like the question says the pngfix jquery plugin is GPL'd. I'd like to use it in a commercial way without having to comply with the GPL. Being that there is no way to do so, I was wondering if there is another alternative to this library that I could use? The plugin found here does seem to have limitations that affect my usage. ...
I often want to release small projects of mine for others to see/use/improve. I have used the GPL with a couple of my projects, but I would like to be more permissive than that--so I chose the MIT license. My question is, how would I go about releasing software under the MIT license? What steps do I need to take? I've looked a bit on th...
Hi all I'm looking for a way to detect multiple usages of a piece of desktop software, without them necessarily being online at the time. An online solution could be to log the IP/MAC address and licence key on each start up and detect changes to the IP/MAC address. But if the users of the software are on a local intranet that's not n...
Hello. As part of the work in our research lab, we often code up simple/complex implementations of various algorithms and give them away with a simple "Acknowledgment Request desired, if used" message in the code itself. I want to release them under a proper Open-Source licenses, so as to prevent undesired misuse and also enable others t...
I have a project using TXTextControl. This project contains a [myproject].exe.licenses file. Originally, I had a set of NAnt scripts that compile the executable and other assemblies. The script used to build the executable has the following lines: <resources> <include name="${working.folder}\*.licenses" /> </resources> We've repl...