licensing

LGPL License Question

Lets say that I am writing a program that supports plugins and I write one plugin that has a reference to a assembly(.net) that is licensed under LGPL, must I now make the whole project open source and under LGPL? ...

dialogic voice box licenses

Our app handles 4 lines on the D/4PCI. That works fine. http://www.dialgroup.com/D4PCI.htm But now we have a requirement to handle 8 lines. The card is supposed to scale to 16 cards per box. But when the 5th line opened, regardless of the order, gives a ‘license count exceeded’ violation. The docs suggest that there is a hardware ke...

Does MIT License mean I have to show my code to the world?

I just read this: It is a permissive license, meaning that it permits reuse within proprietary software on the condition that the license is distributed with that software. Am I correct in saying that this means, should I use a component that has the MIT license on my website, I have to make the entire website available to the worl...

switching licence from GPL to BSD in later time

Hi, I wrote an software which I would like to release on BSD license. Unfortunately I am linking to library which is based on GPL. Right now I do not have time to rewrite that library. Can I release my software on GPL and later after rewriting GPL library change license to BSD? (I would guess not). My question is: how can I release s...

How to add TOC to Clickonce installer?

I publish my ClickOnce from Visual Studio, but see no option to add licensing and terms and conditions to it. I refuse to believe that Microsoft left this crucial part of installation out, so could someone tell me how to do it? Edit: Possible duplicate : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/834071/clickonce-ask-for-a-license-agreement ...

Can I produce commercial code with Visual studio express editions?

Hi, Can I use Visual C# express to produce commercial applications? And are there any other licensing issues. Thank you ...

What OSS Licence Should I Use?

I am considering starting an OSS project and would like some advice. I would like to use a licence that allows free use of the project for personal and non-profit use but would allow me to charge for a commercial licence (like or similar to http://www.extjs.com/company/dual.php). Could someone please advise or link to some articles on ...

How does MS-PL license work?

Hi, I am a .net mvc web developer trying to understand how open source licenses work; more specially the MS-PL license. I would like to create a commercial web application based off an open source project that comes with an MS-PL license. I know I can modify the software and use it for commercial use, but do I need to include the MS-PL l...

MySQL Licensing in a Commercial Web Application using Hibernate

I am evaluating the prospect of developing a commercial java web application using Hibernate as the ORM framework. This application would be installed on a customer's server and would be used by a small number of users. Also I do not want to release my source code since the application is mission critical and it would potentially jeopa...

Which open source license?

Hello! I am very confused as to which open source license I should use for my project. I am going to tell you what permissions I want my project to have, and someone please let me know which license would be best for me. Here are my desired permissions and specifications: Can be used commercially: Yes Can be used for closed source pro...

Can I sell applications created using VS2008 from DreamSpark?

Hello! My version of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 is downloaded from DreamSpark. Does my license include the rights to sell any created application? I found : "you must use them in pursuit of increasing your education..." (https://www.dreamspark.com/FAQ/StudentOverview.aspx) My main pursuit is to learn. Edit : Seems like I cannot a...

what care must be taken using open source program in commercial applications?

I use lot of open source programs in my noncommercial applications. If I want to use them in commercial applications what care must be taken. I know that if we do some modifications in source code we must submit it. Do we need to submit all of our source code ? Do we need to provide a link of the source publisher on application fron...

Do commercial (paid) iPhone apps have to pay a license to Google for Maps?

I know that happens with commercial websites so I was wondering if commercial iPhone apps that use the MapKit (especially those that generate a lot of traffic) need to get any sort of license from Google Maps as well. My best guess would be no, but just asking in case someone knows better. Also, I would guess Google gets license fees fr...

Reading license file from RLM with C# (C++ to C# translation)

I'm using the Reprise RLM license manager researching internet activation. I can't figure out how to get the license file from the webserver into a text file with C# (I'm also very new to C#). RLM comes with an example in C++ but I can't translate it. My code (for the demo) looks like so: int stat = RLM.rlm_act_request(handle, "http:/...

Incorporating license key approach for a WinForms app

I need some guidance on where to research further incorporating license key enablement for a WinForms application. That is incorporating those key concepts you see often such as: 30 day trial Need license key to unlock the application beyond this Possibly the ability to unlock power user functionality using this approach What is the...

What license might help me maximize the value of the intellectual property of my system?

So I've written a vertical market application that has interest from a large corporation. Hurrah! What kind of software license should I use? In particular: Currently I own the company that wrote the software. I don't want to devalue the worth of the company by "giving the software away". The software is a mix of a Web site and Wind...

Software license texts

In the installer for a product I need some sort of license text that basically says "don't copy" - but does this in a 3000 character long legal text ... Where can I find good examples of these to reuse? I mean all small tools/products out there that are for sales and have these text can't have hired a lawyer - right? ...

Dual software license (one open, one not)

In an answer to a question about the GPL, David wrote, If your CMS is something that others might want to build on, you can dual-license it. In this case, you want to release under the GPL or similar to prevent somebody else from taking the F/OS code and taking it proprietary. Some companies have done very well doing th...

Proprietary software based on MIT license.

As far as I understand. I can use a project licensed under MIT license into a proprietary software. Am I right? It dosen't force any copyleft and I don't have to say that my project is based on something else. That means I can fork the hell out of it, right? Can someone shed some light over this? ...

Ethics and Law of modified LGPL code deployment in a commercial software

First bit of the question: What are the legal requirements of LGPL code during the deployment of a commercial product? Software package should include LGPL licence file Anything else? Shall we add a line to our "software agreement text" where you need to click next in the installer ? Second bit, Is there any known / accepted ways of...