licensing

How to license my work under creative commons?

How to license my writing work under creative commons. Do i have to follow some procedure or do i just need to show a notice and thats all? I need detailed help. Thanks in advance. ...

What does open source license (like GNU-GPL) mean?

I am looking forward to use an open source product which has GNU-GPL like license and it says that if I use that product, I must share the source code of my application. I am slightly confused about it. I understand that Linux is available under GNU-GPL license as well. Does it mean ALL linux application are and has to be open source? D...

Is it ok to put any existing open-source project into github?

This question is more about Open-Source etiquette, and the new approach that the likes of github and gitorious gives to collaboration and source ownership. Can you just take any Open-Source project from somewhere else (e.g SourceForge, with a clear project team and community) and put it into your own github repository, provided that you...

how to Commercially Licence Java Software??

I have written a Desktop based accounting software in Java. I want to put a key or licence or other kind of security to prevent redistribution of the software by the client. I just want to know how to go about it? ...

External Connector Licensing with website hosted on windows

I we have created a website that requires users to login. It used forms based authentication and sql server to validation the login credentials. Should we need to purchase an external connector license from microsoft to be able to host this site on a windows .net platform. Edit: More information about external connectors. In microsoft ...

Which are the best LGPL Libraries for Numerical Methods, Optimization Techniques, DOE, Sensitivity Analysis?

I wish to perform some mathematical operations including Design of Experiments, Optimization Techniques, Sensitivity Analysis and Six-Sigma based Robust design for Aerospace Design project. I am developing applications for mechanical design engineers. I understand there are a few libraries like DAKOTA from sandia national labs that help...

About to release code into the wild

I have a program I wrote and I have been encouraged by folks to release it into public. What would be the best way to go about it? Just dump it on a public site and hope for the best? How much criticism will come (on the standards, decisions made etc...) and how best to prepare for that. I have been the sole developer for this app for ...

What requirements you have to satisfy to change your software license?

Let's say you have published your work under GPL, but after some time you realized that it would be better to publish it under other, GPL incompatible license? What options do you have? Are you (or your team), as an author, allowed to simply change the license? Or do you need a permission from each contributor, each bug finder? I know ...

Does GPL classpath exception apply for "fat jar" contianing all JAR files or do I have to redistribute source?

I am reading here: http://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html for http://www.jidesoft.com/products/oss.htm I would like to keep a single JAR file if possible for everything. Thank you Misha p.s. Alternately, is there a good, cross-platform (Windows & Mac) way to deploy multi-jar files without Java Web Start (I need it to run ...

Any legitimate way to get the JMF source code

Hi, According to link here , it is possible to get the source code under Sun Community Source Licensing (SCSL); however, I can not find any place to pursuit this and this link is obsolete now. Any information? NOTE: To be specific, i need only source code of JMF 1.0 ...

Necessity of having license information present in all code revisions

I'm considering posting some code on github. Older revisions of the code don't have a COPYING file or other licensing information in them. What's the effect of posting this publicly? Would people be able to copy and use that code freely without adhering to any license constraints? Although there doesn't appear to be a "default licens...

utility to create/update license information

Is there a utility to manage license information? Mostly this would just be a minor convenience, but I'd like to be able to do something like $ licentious -L GPL -s git -m "A utility for managing license information" to create a file named (by default) COPYING in the current directory, using my name and email address as configured in ...

Looking for a Distributed Server System to speed up my php "call home" script

I'm not exactly sure what I'm looking for but basically I have a PHP app that customers use on their own server. In it it does a 'call home' command to check if the license key they are using is valid before allowing them to use it. I currently make it connect to my primary server which is very fast, but it is hosted in the US and if...

QT commercial vs. non-commercial license for beginner

The QT licensing seems very anti-learning, because afaik anything you develop with it can only be commercial if and only if its entire development was done while using a commercial license. Ethics aside, if you're new to QT, play around with it using the non-commercial license (since you obviously wouldn't know at that point if you coul...

Using the Google Maps API on a site with user login (free)

I'm planning to make a web app where users can register for free. The app will contain a map, and I will most probably use OpenStreetMap data. The problem I've encountered with open libs as for example OpenLayers is that they're really slow and choppy when adding a lot of markers (which will be totally unacceptable). I think the renderin...

how to create a commercial web-based generic issue tracker application (quick way by reusing modules)

I would like to develop a generic issue tracker that is web based. Further, i want to sell these applications to couple of clients. Whats the best way to rig up such an application. Can i use any of the existing frameworks like Drupal? (Given drupal's licensing, is that possible to come up with a commercial app) Can i use any other exis...

Does the license on the .NET framework allow distribution of derivative forms of it's code?

I'd like to mimic a .NET class signature (and possibly some major pieces of implementation) in a C++ application. I plan on releasing said application under the Boost Software License. Specifically, I'd like to use the TimeSpan and DateTime interfaces, as well as some implementation I found using the handy dandy Reflector tool. Would us...

I'm releasing some code, what license should I be using?

I've been trawling through many pages about software licensing and it's a real brain-beater. Legal stuff just isn't interesting, although I do know that I must release my code under a license, otherwise I'd just end up with problems later on down the road. So I've just finished a rich web-based media manager, and I'm getting around to r...

GNU General Public License

If a piece of software is published with the GNU General Public License does that mean that the source code is available? ...

Releasing code containing Java Swing, what license?

I'm getting to close to project completion, and I would like to make my code open source, releasing it under GPLv2 or Apache, something of that ilk. However, I had read somewhere that there is no free implementation of Java Swing, and so code depending on swing couldn't be released under those licenses. Is this true? And if so, what lice...