Hi there, I own a very small legally registered company that comprise of a team of 3. I purchased an individual license early this August under my personal name. We intend to publish our first product this september under my license but have our company name and website displayed in the product. Is this allowed by Apple? Can I publish a...
Let's say I want to develop a public website and make it open source. Can an open source license demand that derivative work keep a link to the original site in a prominent way? On the one hand this shouldn't look like a problem, as it seems similar to the widespreaad "leave credits clause in source code". On the other hand, source cod...
Hey! I am working on License Agreement for my application. Most software License Agreements refer to a company name as the author and the owner of the software. I don't have a registered company. However I have a web-site, say "pashasoft.com" that is registered on my name. Suppose I refer to Pashasoft in the License Agreement as the auth...
Hey there, Under what license agreement should you release software under if it's closed-source and for commercial use only? Are there multiple license types? (such with open source you have BSD, GNU/GPL etc..) If so, which one do I choose, and are there samples out there to get you started? I have heard the term and seen documents na...
Many people suggest to develop web applications in open source technologies. And one of the reason is the cost involved in hosting and the licensing of software. How costly can it be to build and deploy an application in asp.net mvc compared to any other open source technology? ...
If I have a open source software library covered by LGPL, can I use it in a closed source commercial application? ...
Hi, We are developing a product in C#.Net. We would definately not like our product to be copied easily across machines (in short pirated). For that purpose can anybody suggest using a 3rd party tool or a home grown solution. What are the pros and cons of each. One negative about home grown solution is that the cost involved in creati...
It seems that licensing terms would prevent us from using Google Maps API in our software. We would prefer to be absolutely free open source and Google Maps API will require commercial license if our software is sold (correct me if I am wrong - I will delete this question then :-). So the question is if there are alternative map APIs f...
I mean, is it theoretically possible to determine (based only on the content of the swf file) that the software which compiled the given swf was licensed trial or something else? I guess Adobe would implement something like this to discourage using pirated software. ...
Does the LGPL ensure that programs that rely on my code admit it? I read on Zed's blog something to that effect. (Link, section "I don't want to be ignored again"). Is it true? ...
I have a progam this is a converter for .NET that can be used in other .NET projects. I have two kinds of license: Developer license for DESKTOP software Developer license for WEB server deployed software. How I can protect my program if client buy (1) license he CAN NOT use it on the SERVER. ...
I can see where svn:keywords like Id, LastChangedDate and Author are used and replaced in your repository. But I also saw an example of setting a custom property, like license. But I don't understand how you USE a property like license, since the replace feature (as I understand it) doesn't work for custom properties. I guess my questio...
Is there any codeplex license that allows some one to use my code any way they want but not to create a program that does the same thing that my programs do? ...
I have been told that Microsoft allow employees of any company that uses it's products, such as Visual Studio 2008 or Office, to install them on their home machines. Before I do so, is this correct? It doesn't sound right to me, but I know microsoft have something called the "Home Use Program" but I'm not familiar with it and haven't s...
What are the rights of contributors to open source projects? I'm not talking about the project owners or main developers, but about devs who have contributed significant, if clearly minority, parts of code, or who have consistently handed in patches and fixes. What are their rights to the project? What happens if, say, in a GPL project...
I've spent about a day looking through all of these confusing legal looking things, and I hate the obscure language that these lawyers use, frankly. This software is provided "as is". If you actually think about it, that makes no sense whatsoever. If the software is being provided, then it's obviously being provided in one state or anoth...
I want to use a tool (ffmpeg) that is under GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1 GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 for some components. To do so, I only call it in my software as such: System.Diagnostics.Process p = new System.Diagnostics.Process(); p.StartInfo = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo("lgplSoftware....
Let's say write a C library, and I want all versions of the source to carry my copyright/license, but I want users of the library distributing executable code, static or dynamically linked library to be a able to do so without restriction (including making reference to my particular license). Does such an open source license exist? Tha...
Today I had a bad surprise learning about some implications of the GPL license, mainly that I couldn't use it as freely as I thought. Now I know. What else should I know, and more widely, what should every developer know about legal things like that? You can separate employees, freelancers, open source projects contributors (etc.) o...
I'm setting up a new project and I want to choose a license that is as limiting as possible while still being open source. Apache License 2.0 Artistic License/GPL Eclipse Public License 1.0 GNU General Public License v2 GNU General Public License v3 GNU Lesser General Public License MIT License Mozilla Public License 1.1 New BSD Licen...