In my case, I am using gperf, I didn't fint it in the gnu gpl. The C code generated by gperf, is very simple, and doesn't have any licensing header. I guessed that a file without a licence at the beginning is totaly in the domain public. Am I right? ...
The Xming license and website states that Xming can't be commercially used without buying a dedicated license. However, I can't find any license on the patches used to build the application and the licensing seems to only apply to Xming Website Releases. So, I wonder if I can rebuild Xming from source and freely use the resulted binary...
Situation: I want to pick a license for an open-source project. Having considered GPL vs BSD/MIT, I prefer GPL because it protects the open-source-ness of software. However, I prefer something less restrictive. I'm particularly amused at the fact that different versions of GPL are not compatible!! I want the software to stay FOSS, ...
I need an advice from an expert of licenses because i've never understand anything about licenses:). I want to build a free web application and i've chosen Ext Js to do this, but i know that only in some cases that framework can be used without paying, is my situation one of them? The application is totally free, maybe i will include so...
I have a project, php based, thats licensed under the MPL (not a trilicense, and it can't be changed without more work than I'd like to put into a non-development task). I want to include an LGPL licensed library. I'm going to be dumping it in directly- any patches I make I will be sending back to the main project. I know that including...
I've seen some software (a Joomla component, to be exact) for sale on a web site. The web site says it is licensed under the GNU GPL2. However it also says you need to pay for every site you use the software on (with bulk discounts). I know it's perfectly acceptable to sell software under the GPL, however the license implies that the so...
Hello, I'm looking for a solution to display a PDF in C#. I found the AxAcroPDFLib Control, that works very fine and is sufficient. But other people can't start my program, because they get an exception "AxInterop.AcroPDFLib" not found. But they have the latest Adobe PDF Reader installed. OS is Windows 7! How can I fix that problem? (...
Is the iTextSharp DLL free to use and redistribute with my web application project which i will be selling? ...
It occured to me that the MySQL Connectors(Java and .NET) are GPL licensed. Does that mean vendors(not developing for inhouse apps) will have to purcase a commercial license for proprietary software talking to a MySQL database through these connectors ...
-What is difference between connection to SQL Server from ASP.net and Desktop application? Why purchasing a Client Access License (CAL) for every device that accesses your server is not needed in web? If I have a CAL for 10 devices and I need one more device to connect to SQL Server, can I do this using Web service? Thanks ...
I need to write a "kill switch" into my C# application for licensing/billing purposes. What is the best way to do that? The requirements are as follows (its actually 2 kill switches): 1 - "passive kill switch" - If a particular user does not log into the application in X days then the application stops working. 2 - "active kill switch...
It should also allow customers to make patches to the software and exchange patched with other customers. And the developing company should be able to hold all the rights on source code and on all accepted patches. ...
I'm considering two possibilities: include NUnit with the source code of an open-source project - to make it very easy for the potential contributors to run automated tests right away. I feel it is important to promote the "tests-first" culture in this project (or at least make it clear to everyone that tests matter). distribute the ...
I'm trying to figure out how to implement my licensing policy technically. I'm guessing there are typical approaches, but it seems hard to find something online. My approach would be to look at authentication, signing and encryption topics. I'm currently thinking along the lines of having the software get permission for certain actions ...
Point three for example: Neither the name of the ORGANIZATION nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission. Thanks for any advice. ...
I have just made some changes to a jQuery ui widget and I would like to release them. I'm not concerned about releasing the changes under the same license, but I would like to know how I should indicate copyright for my changes? The original copyright statement (below) only refers to an authors.txt file. /* * jQuery UI Draggable 1.7....
Hello all i like to browse open source software that are released as public domain type of software license , is there such list ? if i think about it is there some kind of index that sort open source applications by license ? Thanks ...
Can I, without permission of anybody, relicense some software from MIT/BSD license to GPL license legally? For example, may I take the Google Chrome web browser and re-release it under the GPL (under another name)? It is just "what if" question. I will not do this, I promise. ...
I have found a bug in an LGPL Lib that I currently link against dynamically. The application is closed source I link dynamically to the LGPL Lib The application will be available to the public If I modify the lib my understanding is that I will have to make the changed source files availible with the application, is this correct? ...
I have a service installation that in order to get it to work on Win2k, I had to include instsrv.exe in the installer, since Win2k doesn't include sc.exe (which I use for XP and up) and instsrv.exe is not always installed...so I cannot count on it being there. (instsrv and sc are both used to create/install the service on the system). ...