I was checking codeplex.com and when it's time to start a project, it requires to choose a License. They give us this link to choose the license. What do you suggest? I have read few description and they look very similar. Update Some people asked me what is the project to be able to give me a more specific answer. The project is not ...
I'm a little unsure how the open source licensing stuff works. If I were to choose a particular open source license, what do you actually have to do to make it applicable to your software? I would imagine it would be a little more involved than just 'stating' that you're releasing your software under LGPL. And how does this 'contract'...
I've written some software for a customer, and I'd like to release it to them under a license that permits them to make modifications for their own in-house use, but still prohibits them from selling or otherwise redistributing the software after I've given it to them. Can someone point me to a license that either has this effect or coul...
If I have a windows xp computer with a single license (the one dell gave me), if I have 2-3 vm's setup (using vmware) for development purposes, do I have to have licenses for all of them? ...
I read the high level details on CC-GNU GPL 2.0, and Creative Commons used by SO. I'm not a lawyer, so I'm not sure I get the specific pros and cons of each variation of open source license. What is the difference between the popular GPL's and Creative Commons' licenses in terms of what a software developer or company has to gain or lo...
Background: I have an application that is licensed under the LGPL which uses a whole bunch of open-source 3rd party libraries. What kind of information should I have in my "About" dialog box. There are a few things I can think off the top: Author(s) of this application Copyright/Licensing information Credits Is there anything else t...
Hi everybody I would like to find out more about the GNU GPL, and in particular how it pertains to a particular commercial project I wish to undertake. I have just read the license, and have obviously heard about GPL for many years, but I have some specific questions that I hope learned people here can answer: If I want to add additi...
Seems like rel-license only applies to pages not to specific elements... anyone spotted usage for page elements in the wild? ...
Regarding the following excerpt of this comment: AFAIK, it's fine to interact with GPL code over a network adapter. It's not normally OK (again, AFAIK) to have code that's more tightly coupled than that, particularly if your code can't function without the GPL code, but that's a gray area. So if I want to use a graphics...
When a web site is licensed under Creative Commons, I use the rel-license microformat. When a web site is licensed under regular copyright, I have a boring paragraph element. <p id="copyright">© 2008 Example Corporation</p> That id attribute on there is just for CSS styling purposes. I'm wondering if there's some better way to ma...
Hi, I want to create a license key, which cryptography algorithm would you recommend? Basically the inputs would be: company name major version number date created expirey date has feature1: has feature2: has feature3: e.g. Acme Inc 5.0 20081102 20081102 0 1 0 DUPLICATE http://stackoverflow.com/questions/258721/which-built-in-net-c...
How should I license the code snippets used in my blog posts so that people feel free to use it without painful restrictions? My (very limited) understanding of copyright tells me that without any defined license that everything is protected as copyrighted which would have severe limitations on other's use. There's a good discussion ab...
I am developing a piece of software in python that will be distributed to my employer's customers. My employer wants to limit the usage of the software with a time restricted license file. If we distribute the .py files or even .pyc files it will be easy to (decompile), and remove the code that checks the license file. Another aspect i...
I have an application which get copied and run on client machines. The program is in the form of an Adobe Projector file. I want to write a process that checks when the program starts running whether or not the license is still active, and if not, delete the entire program. The program itself knows the real date that it was installed, ...
It appears from their marketing literature that their new Windows with SQL option on EC2 has the SQL licensing costs bundled into their instance charges, but I'd hate to make assumptions. Has anyone here that has actually used a SQL instance on EC2 confirm/deny that the SQL Licensing costs are bundled into the instance chanrges from Am...
What is copyright licence type to select in order to make the code free for the public in all possible ways. Is "The MIT License" the best option? ...
Does anyone know if the Microsoft Community License (Ms-CL) is compatible with the BSD license? That is, if I am working on open-source code that is BSD-licensed, can I reference a library that is Ms-CL-licensed? ...
Hi, if you pay like 25% of the license cost as a annual maintenance fee for software, that usually gives you free upgrades (even major releases). this should mean that the software company has to release a major version right? otherwise why would you pay for the annual maintenance fee? ...
Short of rolling your own. There has to be something out there. FlexLM/FlexNet is overpriced, and does not work for a company like ours. The same goes for RLM. There was one product I had hope in called LUM, but IBM no longer licenses the API. So what else is available? Or do you have any known way to get LUM? Please help, I have ...
I need to purchase SQL Server 2008 Standard edition, because it's features fit what I need. On the features page, it says it can handle 32,767 user connections, but how does that connect with CALs? What are CALs and how can they affect a project? ...