I'm aware of the usual list of open source licenses, so I'm not even going to list it here. What I'd like to ask is about your open source projects (whether out or planned for the future), and why you're planning to choose a certain license over the other. Basically say I went for X license because I wanted Y and that other license did...
Possible Duplicates: Best way to find open-source project partners for non-software tasks Arguments for going open source For me the main goal of open sourcing something is collaboration. If the most that other developers are going to do is take it and use it and report bugs to me, then I might as well close source it. Close...
Suppose your for-sale software product uses some free open-source library at runtime. Therefore, you need to distribute the FOSS product in the unchanged, binary form with your product. Which open-source license permits such distribution and under what conditions? I'm particularly interested in three licenses: Apache 2 MS-PL MIT ...
I am currently using WMI to query various details about the underlying hardware in order to uniquely identify a machine. To this end, I came across a field called "Signature" under "Win32_DiskDrive". Is this signature unique across machines (globally)? Can this be used reliably to identify the machine? Thanks, Ananth ...
Are there any standard or "best practice" ways of limiting feature functionality for a particular application? Example: We have a product with a variety of features, and our customers can pick and choose which features they would like to use, and the cost of the product varies based on which features they are actually using. In the pas...
Can I use Visual C++ 2010 Express compiler for commercial use? As far as I know, it was always permitted prior to 2010 version, but now when I start IDE, it writes "For Evaluation Purposes Only". I can't find the full license file anywhere (not in installed files, not in Google), so I'm in doubt, should I use it, or should I downgrade to...
I am trying to find a simple matrix overview of the various licenses around open source software but can't find anything useful. I would like to know whether software under a certain licence can be used in commercial closed source software, if there has to be the original source code included, if the licence has to be redistirbuted, etc...
How can licenses be applied to have two parallel versions of software, one freely available and another commercial, like Red Hat has done with it's version of Linux? Also, can snippets of code be freely ported from one to the other or must it be designed separately? ...
Hi all, A short but sweet question: Can I use Apple's open source Core Foundation (CF classes) in a commercial product for free? That is, can I compile and link against the libraries without open sourcing my own applications's code? Obviously if I alter the original CF code, I would submit the changes. It's a very well constructed AP...
There are a lot of questions relating to license keys asked on Stack Overflow. But they don't answer this question. Can anyone provide a simple license key algorithm that is technology independent and doesn't required a diploma in mathematics to understand? The license key algorithm is similar to public key encryption. I just need some...
Hi! I have a smart client application being deployed with a CickOnce webpage. here's the current scenario. 1.User runs the application, and the application shows a login form. 2.User enters ID/Password in the login form, and the application sends that information to the server. 3.The server authenticates the user and sends configuratio...
I would like to use some parts of Glassfish in a proprietary software that are under a CDDL + GPLv2 license. Am I allowed to do that? I haven't modified anything in the code of these libraries, so is this OK, or my software, because it uses these libraries, is still considered derivative work, and thus a big no-no? I mean, according to ...
Let's say I want make some of my sources publicly available via my blog or other web location. How do I properly indicate what Open Source license I've applied to the sources? For instance, with the MIT License or The Code Project Open License, should I put something at he top of the source files or should I have something on the web p...
I plan to use Forms Authentication with SQL Server Express to manage users. ...
What is the trial period of Visual Studio 2010 professional IDE? ...
I wish to give different licenses to different parts of my code. Also I need to put some copy rights on several SQL statements. Is it possible? How should I organize my code to make it happen? ...
What is the best chess engine released under permissive free software license? By permissive free software license I mean, that it is legal to incorporate the engine's code into my project without having to release the source code of my whole project. ...
I am looking for free & good licensing solutions for my own projects - like using a trail version for the product, or a time limit or features limit. If there isn't anything free available, please guide me to a good one that I can purchase. ...
I'm rewriting a small MIT-licensed program in C, and I intend to copy a segment from it (though not verbatim) that prints usage information and such things. The programs are going to behave, for the most part, the same, but the implementations are going to be much different. What is the best way to incorporate this code into my program,...
Hello, I'm doing some research on the convenience of using Office Web Components on a web to show pivot tables and graphics and I have a question regarding this. Does the use of these components will turn my web app (at least for this feature) into a "Internet Explorer only" app Thanks in advance! ...