I'm trying to decide how to implement a very basic licensing solution for some software I wrote. The software will run on my (hypothetical) clients' machines, with the idea being that the software will immediately quit (with a friendly message) if the client is running it on greater-than-n machines (n being the number of licenses they ha...
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to release code I am working on which uses third party code licensed under the LGPL, under for instance the MIT License? Basically I dont want to change the license of the LGPL part, I am just wondering what happens with it if I chose a different license for the whole package or if that is even po...
I'm creating a project to house an iPhone library for common code for the iPhone... essentially it's a library that'll save people from finding solutions to common problems that amount to copying and pasting snippets of code. The site is located here: http://code.google.com/p/devkit-bb/ I licensed it under Eclipse, because fosters the e...
Hi there. I'm packaging my open-source non-commercial java application in a .jar and I'd like to package the JDBC mysql-connector with it as it is a dependency. The issue that I am having is that I'm uncertain whether or not this is frowned upon or even illegal due to the JDBC license. I've also got the jdbc mysql-connector jar in my c...
Which open source licenses allows inclusion of the licensed source code in commercial applications without having to make our program open source as well? In particular, I was looking on koders.com for an implementation of a fast hash algorithm in C#, but I am not sure if Iam allowed to use it in a commerial application without limits. ...
Hi All, I am looking for a 3rd party licensing module that can be incorporated into my PHP project. I can always implement a custom one but client needs to understand if there are any 3rd party options readily available... does any such 3rd party module exist at all for PHP... such are availabe for .Net but couldn't find any for PHP....
Hey guys, My company purchased Visual Studio Pro 2008 last year, which had a 'free' copy of SQL Server Developer, which I have been using for development. We are wanting to upgrade the copy of developer edition to enterprise (As we now want to use the server as a production server), and have purchased the licenses for this. Now... Mor...
Is it legal to decompile an SWF that is licensed under Apache 2.0 with no additional terms? I'm also planning on modifying and using for commercial purposes. My understanding is that Apache License 2.0 allows for modification of source and object, but I'm not sure if I can convert from object to source. Thanks. ...
I want to use some open source code that is licenced under the following "GNU General Public License (GPL), MIT License". I want to include this code in a product that i will sell. Here is the code in particular What do i have to do to not get sued? :) I dont mind distributing the source code that i have modified, but i dont want the ...
If a project on sourceforge does not specify any license, can I assume (L)GPL or no license (completely free)? ...
Hi - we are thinking of using SharePoint to host a web app for which we will allow internal staff and licensed external customers to access a website built on SharePoint. I am thinking that for each authenticated user (logged in) we would need an OS CAL & a SharePoint CAL & we would need a processor license for SQL Server - Is this corr...
In my free time, I develop (alone, sigh) a project, in particoular an application library. I've released it using GPL v3. At this time, this project has come very useful for a job. I'd like to release my OSS library toghether with the application using the same GPL v3 licence, with the exception that it can be linked for the specific ap...
Hi all, We have a server written in C# (Framework 3.5 SP1). Customers write client applications using our server API. Recently, we created several levels of license schemes like Basic, Intermediate and All. If you have Basic license then you can call few methods on our API. Similarly if you have Intermediate you get some extra methods ...
I was noticed that using Open source is dangerous, because some Open Source could be allowed only for Open Source projects. So my project is "For sell" and I'm scared using it... Can someone tell me : Can I use NPOI in my commerce project ? And maybe someone can clear my fears of using open source libraries and open source at all... T...
I am starting this question to try and make a central point developers can use to choose what Source Code License to use for their projects. What I am looking for out of this question are the following for the Licenses: A short description of the License What type of projects should this License be used for Examples of existing projec...
I included these libraries or namespaces in my C# application and published the solution as freeware. I used Visual C# Express 2008. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; using System.Media; u...
What are the licences required for an asp.net (MVC) web application using sql server running a windows server ? Is Windows Web Server 2008 R2 enough for running SQL Server 2008 Web ? Is it possible (legal ?!) to install SQL Server on a "Web" operating system ? What are the limitations ? An official link would be nice ...
If we use a CMS that is covered by the GPL (v2), do we have to re-release the source code of the CMS if we make modifications to the core? The GPL v2 states: The GPL does not require you to release your modified version. You are free to make modifications and use them privately, without ever releasing them. This applies to or...
Hi if I want to publish a project under the MIT license, and the project will use FreeImage under its public license, do I simply include that license seperatly so that my own code is released under MIT, while freeImage keeps its license? thank you! ...
I'm am looking into releasing the sourcecode for a project for non-commercial use. GPL and similar licenses are not non-commercial, but I don't want end up competing against software I wrote, so I can't use them. Are there non-commercial software licenses? Preferably some that are at least somewhat known. For know I thinking to use Cre...