After reading this post regarding the use ECC to implement the hashing using aa private key I set about trying to find an implementation of ECDH and came across BoucyCastle. Unfortunately documentation is minimal (as in zerow!) and I'm unsure what I'm about to accomplish is completely correct/valid. We want to simply hash 4 strings whi...
I'm including a copy of ffmpeg, and probably GPG too. I will be calling them as subprocesses from a python app I'm creating. I'm distributing this and I'm wondering a) since I'm not using the library, I'm simply executing both programs within the python app, I do not have to release the source to my app right? b) do I need to obtain lic...
Is it possible to change a SQL Server 2005 Product License Key without reinstalling SQL? We have two identical Dell servers that will be deployed by the DOD. Each server was purchased with a SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition license. We installed and configured one of the servers. We took a ghost image of it and put it on the second ser...
I'm currently looking at Prestashop, that uses an OSL 3.0 open source license. That license requires you to share the code even with users (so it plugs the famous "asp hole"). My question regards to it's plugin architecture for modules. Would the OSL 3.0 license apply also to modules, or it wouldn't be considered part of the distributio...
Is it illegal to use mysql server 4.x or 5.x with enterprise applications, even though the mysql was installed as part of the SuSE SLES operating system? ...
We are developing a closed-source proprietary product that uses quite a few open source projects and we have not been methodically cataloging them, along with their licenses. Now we are trying to build a deployment package and we'd like to get into compliance. What's the easiest way to accomplish this? Should we make one big text file...
If I recall correctly one of the limitations of the Office 2007 Ribbon UI was that you cannot use it to compete with other MS Office products like Word or Excel. Does this same restriction apply for the Windows 7 Ribbon UI? Thanx. ...
I can't get project-specific licenses to work in my Netbeans File Templates. I have a template called "PHP File". The contents look like this... <?php <#assign licenseFirst = "/*"> <#assign licensePrefix = " * "> <#assign licenseLast = " */"> <#include "../Licenses/license-${project.license}.txt"> ?> I also added a file template to t...
Hello, I have been developing my own PHP MVC framework. I want to make it open-source. Basically, I am having bit of problem in choosing the right open-source license. I just want that anyone using/modifying/extending my framework just puts the copyright info intact, that is it. For this, which open-source license should I choose. Th...
I am planning to submit an iPhone app for certain special purpose calculations. I want to add a legal disclaimer about the calculations somewhere so that the user can see it atleast once before starting to use the app. Should this go into the EULA that may be submitted as part of app submission process? Or should that be a one time scree...
After the user enters his / her license key, my application activates itself with that key (online). How do I store this activated state and the license key so that the next time the user opens the app, the app will know that it is already activated? ...
I am building a product for which I plan to use a software that is licensed under the GNU AFFERO GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 3. I am not planning to extend the code and I just plan to use it, as a JAR. Should I also release my software as AGPL and open source my code base? ...
I am attempting my first commercial game. I am using some paid-for content and some free and have found some content under GPL license that would be very suitable to use in my game. Although my game uses NO GPL code and I do not want to open source the game, I would like to use some 3D models that have GPL license. The models will be pla...
What is the practical meaning of NAnt's license exception: As a special exception, the copyright holders of this software give you permission to link the assemblies with independent modules to produce new assemblies, regardless of the license terms of these independent modules, and to copy and distribute the resulting a...
Hi, I am building my own web app, and there are open source code out there that would be useful in my reducing my development time. For now, I plan to develop in closed source, but opening the source code when the code is mature can be a possibility. However, for now, I'd like to know the possible (legal) issues in using open source co...
I have a fairly good understanding of individual OSS licenses, but I always have trouble when I want to use code under different licenses. BSD vs. Ms-PL, Apache 2 vs. GPLv3 etc. Is there some sort of "mating chart" that lists which licenses are compatible with which ones? ...
The artistic license talks about modified and standard releases of a package, but nothing is said about chunks of code. Of course nobody here is a lawyer, but can you find something reasonable in the license allowing to take chunks of code from an AL project and putting the code verbatim into a BSD licensed project ? ...
Hi! I am very new to web development and the use of Open Source. I have tried to read about the GPL, BSD, MIT, LGPL licenses, but cant seem to understand what they mean to me in real life. I am asked to develop a web based application for a customer. My agreement with them is that they pay a fixed fee for my development of the applica...
I've found something cool which I'd like to use in my project. Because I'm a pro and earn money with programming, I consider my own little project also to be "commercial". So this cool lib I have in mind has an "MIT-style license". Is that one something similar to GPL? Or more restrictive? Or less restrictive? It's an javascript library....
There are quite a few issues when you open source an existing website, and I'd like to see how how others have tackled this before. Are there some good examples out there of web applications, which have a public source code repository? These are issues I have in mind: Handling sensitive data: salt keys, database connection info, etc.I...