Microsoft has come out with this fairly new technology that I am considering using for a .NET 3.5 application. I am curious, is anyone using this technology already? I am worried that the use of the secure virtual machine will negatively affect performance. Also, the way Microsoft advertises the product, it seems as though the licensi...
We are building a commercial product that is using MySQL as the back-end. The product will not be open source (at least not initially). We have had a very hard time getting any costing information from MySQL, they seem to want a percentage of the list price of the product, but no clarity is given on what that percentage is. Has anyone ...
The specific case I'm thinking about is writing Clojure programs that are GPLed. I've seen cases where GPLed software was using incompatible licenses (Erlang's, which is like MPL) just by adding an exception to the license agreements. Is that possible with the CPL? ...
In section 3(d), the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL) states: "If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license". It seems to me that the statement "complies with this license" means that software that contains the Ms-PL-licensed code must al...
How do you protect your commercial application from being installed on multiple computers from people who only own one license? Do you think it's a good idea to have more than just a serial based scheme? ...
I installed Visual Studio (Web Developer in this case) Express Edition and was reading through the EULA. One thing that did not jump out at me was what I was allowed to use the software for (private, commercial, etc). Does anyone know if you are allowed to sell/distribute the code you create in these Express editions? I know they are g...
I've been developing GPL'd software for years, but now I need a more restrictive license. This is for a commercial application, and I want to share my source code with the whole world, regardless of whether they've purchased the application from me or not. I also want to allow people to produce derivative works, but I want to prohibit b...
Our company is planning to migrate to VB.net and database to My SQL. (our system and database currently is VFP). We are in outsourcing business and one of our service is installing a program in client's workstation. This program is a clone of our main program that would generate reports for them. We update the data by sending them the db...
I'm new to stackoverflow.com after hearing about it from Jon Skeet on DotNetRocks.This seems like the perfect place to ask this question. I am in the middle of trying to find a 3rd party Copy protection and licensing tool. The company that I work with have 4 products that need to be protected. We want to supply a Trail license (with ext...
I'm in the planning stages of a rather large project (think Photoshop killer) that will be released to the public at large. Most of the features are plugable and I plan to release the plugin sdk for free. I'll also be trying to garner a bit of a community of third-party plugin developers. I'm thinking of releasing two versions of the pr...
I'm thinking about releasing some of my PHP work as open source using one of the popular open-source licenses out there. I'd like to build a community around it and let contributors other than myself help grow the codebase. For someone who has never released anything as open source before, what are some important things to consider when...
I'm working on an application that makes extensive use of ComponentOne's C1FlexGrid. Of the dozens we use, three are missing their licenses.licx file and cause the demo splash screen to pop up while I'm starting the application. Is there any way to determine which forms are causing this behavior. Short of checking hundreds of directorie...
I have been considering suggesting to my managers that certain software (and material) that we have developed in house could be released as Open Source. Convincing management types to give away our stuff for free is a little hard, however, it might be looked upon more favourably if there's an "exit clause", if you like. Is it possible t...
I'm about to release a set of Eclipse plug-ins as Open Source and noticed that most source code released under the LGPL/EPL contains a header banner in each file that refers to the license or contains the license itself. Since adding these banners to each file manually seems to be a daunting and error-prone task, I was wondering whether...
I have recently been wondering why so little code is ever released as 'Public Domain'. MIT and BSD licenses are becoming extremely popular and practically only have the restriction of license propagation. The reasons I can think of so far are: Credit - aka Prestige, Street-cred, 'Props', etc. Authors don't want usage of the code rest...
I have always included clauses to transfer to my clients full author, ownership and use rights for all the source code, original images, original resources, etc. I develop/create for them. Of course, I retain author, ownership and use rights for my libraries and I usually do not include source code for those. If the client requires my l...
This might be a stupid question but I just wanted to make sure... If I incorporate code generated by the IDE (Visual Studio in this case) in my software, can I apply my own license to that code or is it subject to its own license? ...
I heard about SSIS, a new replacement of the old DTS. I believe it has the same functionality which I used to perform. Now, like any other product from Microsoft, you have to mess with 10 different choices for a single package. I would like to get your opinion of which edition of SQL Server 2005 I should buy to ensure that I can replica...
Is it necessary to have a commercial license for MySQL in order to use it legally in a project which is not open source? Does it matter if the application is hosted and the binaries are never distributed? The more I learn about open source licenses the more confused I become. ...
Say for example, I've written some code under GPL 3. My company wants to use that code for a commercial product. Am I allowed to then say to them that they can use it under LGPL/MIT or any other license? If so, would I then have to change the included header at the top of each file? If so, what is stopping someone else from changing the ...