I seem to recall hearing at some point (I believe it was MIX09) that Microsoft has a licensing model of some sort where a business can consume licenses for up to two years, free of charge, until they reach a point where they are stable position and can pay their licensing at the end of two years. However, I can't find information regard...
I am making a closed source software. Which License should I choose from? GNU Free Documentation License 1.2 or later and Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. thz u. ...
Hi, I'm working on a free and open-source project (GPLv3) that basically creates a VPN. The project is meant to be portable (in terms of platform and architecture). On Linux and Mac OSX, I use the built-in system "tap/tun" device driver to create a virtual network interface and it works well. On Windows, I use the TAP driver from Open...
I am going to development a product related to security. It's my personal belief that any security related product should release it's source code for review. However, I also want to sell it as a commercial product and keep the code ownership to myself and don't expect deviated work. Is there a software license for this purpose? Thanks....
As a software engineer/programmer myself, I love the possibility to download the code and learn from it. However building software is what brings food to my table. I have doubts regarding the type of license I should use for my own personal projects or when picking up one project to learn from. There are already many questions about lic...
say a company is using Open source libraries, or programs, and packaging it into a proprietary solution. or perhaps, the engineers have copy pasted certain section of those open source libraries and have compiled it now, into a very useful "proprietary" software suite. what legal troubles will this company face if any ? are you allowed ...
I want to use Fluent NHibernate in commercial desktop application, and I'm little concerned about the licensing. I've downloaded Fluent NHibernate precompiled binaries, and it contains this list of files: Antlr3.Runtime.dll Castle.Core.dll Castle.DynamicProxy2.dll FluentNHibernate.dll Iesi.Collections.dll log...
Hi I'm about to release some software as open source. It uses Lucene (Apache license) and jopt simple (MIT license). Are there any constraints on the license that I am going to apply to my own software? In particular, it is an adaptation of Lucene for performing content-based search on audio (so, many classes are inherited and in one c...
OK I have read many posts regarding Dual Licensing using MIT and GPL licenses. But Im curious still, as the wording seems to be inclusive. Many of the Dual Licenses state that the software is licensed using "MIT AND GPL". The "AND" is what confuses me. It seems to me that the word "AND" in the terms, means you will be licensing the...
I inherited a GPL project which I'm trying to improve. I know of an MIT library that could really help me improve this project. I know its developer personally and I read his blog, and he's made it clear on several occasions that he likes MIT and Apache licenses. My questions: Do I have to tell him that I'm using his library in a GP...
I want to use functionality from a certain method in apache commons StringUtils. I currently do not have the option of just using the library as one would normally do. I found the source for the method I need and my question is: am I free (legally) to use this code (just a method out of the library) or do I have to use the entire libra...
I'm looking at building a MySQL client plugin for a proprietary product, which would violate the GPL as discussed in the FAQ at http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#NFUseGPLPlugins However, according to the MySQL FOSS License Exception ("FLE"), discussed at http://www.mysql.com/about/legal/licensing/foss-exception/, you can license ...
We're about to finish some free software and we're not sure what license we should release it under. Here's the details: The software is funded by several sponsors The software is open source (edit: see comments) The software will be free to download by the end-user The software will be free to use and modify for personal and commerci...
I'm relatively familiar with the MIT license. What are the differences (and similarities) between it and the MPL (Mozilla Public License) when releasing a new project as MPL (vs. MIT) or when using an existing MPL in an MIT project. Other threads that I read about the MPL but don't help as they compare it to other licenses not the MI...
I was playing around with .Net reflector today and realized that Miicrosoft's entire Expression suite is written in .Net. As a result I was pretty much able to see the underlying code for expression. This makes it far easier than binary to break copy protection. I think that that's a big deal. Is it generally recommended to make commerci...
I'm developing a program that will be published on my university's website. In this program I use two libraries, one under the LGPL and one under the CPOL (link text). I plan on releasing the complete source code, libraries included (without modification). Do those licenses clash? What do I have to do to "fix" it? Do I have to do anythin...
My program reads settings from a specially crafted configuration text file. I supply a sample configuration file together with my program when I ship the program. Is the sample configuration file contents subject to copyright? ...
Am I allowed to do this? I am planning to do some cross-compiling and I was wondering if this was permitted. ...
Hi, I have been creating a cross browser compatible ( >= ie 6 + standards complaint browsers ) Online Instant Messenger What I would like to know is what licensing would I need to protect my code? how would i go about getting a license and where from? My code is in PHP, and jQuery. Regards, Phil ...
I am trying to make sure I license some personal Perl scripts correctly. Do any Perl scripts that I create need to be licensed as GPL (i.e a copyleft license) due to using the GPL licensed Perl interpreter? Please can you back up any answers with appropriate links. Thanks ...