licensing

Charging for sourcecode and the GNU LESSER GPL

Question: If I release a program under the LGPL, can I charge for the sourcecode? The idea is sell the program, and who wants can buy the source, too, at an additional price. ...

How to deploy a commercial portable application?

Hi, We plan to sell a Windows portable application. By 'portable' I mean that it can be run from any Windows computer without installing it. For example from an USB stick etc. However the application while (theoretically) it can work anywhere, is targeted to LAN environments. What solutions do you see that while keeping this advantage ...

Using LGPL for a PHP application

I have a PHP application which I have developed and released under the LGPL, currently on the bottom of the web pages it has a copyright line. Is this allowed or can I only put the copyright line in the source file. Another part to this question is under LGPL is the user allowed to remove the Copyright line from the web pages, as long a...

Asking about using PHP LGPL Library, wanted to make my software non-GPL and non-LGPL

I would like to ask you some questions about LGPL, I've used a library written on PHP with license LGPL, I had made software and I'm not license it using LGPL or GPL, The libraries is a class' form I had modified the libraries and made a class to access the library, and I access the library through that class, but I'm not make it inheri...

Eziriz - Intellilock invalid licence problem

Unfortunately we used intellilock to licence our software. A licence file works in everywhere but not in one of our clients. It's a really stupid situation because we have no inner knowledge or way to debug the licencing component: Intellilock doesn't answer support emails, they don't have a phone number either Intellilock exceptions ...

Which license for giving away sourcecode

Question: I want to make available the sourcecode of my application for personal use at an extra price. That is to say, the user may buy the application, or the sourcecode, and alter the application for his personal/corporate use, but he may not resell it, unless I approve. I also want the changes to be published back to me. Is there ...

Is it possible to use HTTPS certificates for licensing?

I am working on an application with multiple clients and a server running various web-services for the clients. To implement licensing I am thinking about using HTTPS as a protocol for the web-services using certificates that are issued by our company. By influencing the expiration date of a certificate for a client we can prevent them f...

BSD license - adding author

I significantly modified some BSD licensed code. Can I add myself as the author to the Copyright statement list under the 'redistribution clause'? ...

sharepoint licensing migration to 2008 causing complete failure

I currently use license.validate to check if my product is valid in sharepoint on windows 2003, i keep the license in the 12 hive and it all works. i am testing the same code on 2008 and the whole web application just hangs! Could this be a permissions problem? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks ...

License which allows internal use of source code only

I have recently written an application on per-contract base for a company. The deal was that they get the binary and the source code - so in case of small changes / improvements they can do it on their own. On the other hand I don't want them to redistribute neither source nor the binaries. As I'm having full trust in the people there w...

I'm creating opensource GPL H264 encoding lib/app (based on x264) do I need to pay for the license?

I'm creating opensource GPL H264 encoding lib/app (based on x264) do I need to pay for the license? ...

Good Place to learn about License

So I'm looking for web sites, and books to learn about licenses Books would be great, I'm sure I can get them from the university libraries. Ok, I have some code I'm going to release to the public. Some of it is quite valuable (not massively but quite valuable), 100's of manhours. I want to keep rights for it while making it available f...

ASP.NET - What is the best way to block the application usage?

Our clients must pay a monthly Fee... if they don't, what is the best way to block the asp.net software usage? Note: The application runs on the client own server, its not a SaaS app... My ideas are: Idea: Host a Web Service on the internet that the application will use to know if the client can use the software. Issue 1 - What happen ...

Question about BSD license.

The zend framework is in BSD if i make a leet product on zend can i sell it to ppl ? ...

What is the Best Software For Implement Licensing System for My .NET Windows Application?

I Want Implement a Licensing System for my Application. I Use .Net Reactor Software for this And this Software can be Create a License File For My Application.But I Want a powerful Software for Implement Licensing System with Activation Code. ...

Suggestions for first-time sourceforge project contributer?

Hey all. I'm a professional software developer here in Seattle, WA USA. I program for/work in a Windows shop, but I've recently began considering contributing to an Open Source project, specifically one under the Python License (CNRI Python License). I realize that contacting a human resources representative where I work is the firs...

What is the licensing for Windows Media Video (WMV)?

I'm looking into video playback in Java and I'm trying to find out all of the licensing options. Currently I haven't managed to find out any info about what (if any) license is applicable to WMV. Does anyone know? ...

Adding User License Agreement in Solaris package

I have asked similar question for Linux RPM (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2132828/adding-license-agreement-in-rpm-package). Now i have same query for Solaris package. I could not get any helpful link / details if it is possible. But I have found a package which does exactly the same thing but how it has been implemented, its not me...

Distributing fonts from PC to Mobile device

Hi, We have an application that allows a user to design a form and configure font properties, etc. The fonts presented are from their PC list of available fonts. This application is intended to deploy to a mobile device which will likely not have that font resident. My question involves any licensing issue that arises if we distribut...

Changing the default header comment license in Xcode

Whenever I create a new .cpp/.h file in Xcode a comment is added to the top of the file. For example: /* * <file>.cpp * <Name of project> * * Created by <My name> on <Date>. * Copyright <Year and company>. All rights reserved. * */ I want to change the default comment to be another license, like GPL/LGPL/ or something else....