We've got a dispute with one of my friends. He maintains a commercial public web-service that is written in PHP with closed sources. He claims that he may use any GPL library written in PHP just like any code he had written, without any obligations, attributions or opening code as long as GPL notice in file is intact. My opinion is that...
Two questions really, I'm fairly confident about the first but not sure on the second. Firstly: If I write a subclass of a class from a library released under the CPL, do I also need to release this subclass under the CPL? Secondly: If I copypaste some code from a CPL library, then make reasonably substantial modifications to the code,...
I have an open source Java library (http://jolbox.com) that is currently LGPL licensed. From what I understand LGPL, anyone can basically just link it in their app and distribute it, commercial or not, without the risk of having to "contaminate" their code. However I sometimes get the perception that companies misunderstand this and wi...
Can we include java JRE binaries (binaries itself, not installer) into our software distribution package? Can we do it for free? This software is proprietary closed-source secure client for russian gaming site (SaaS). It is commercial site, but client was created by community, without any support of site owners - so, we must use only fr...
Hello all. I have a two part question regarding licenses and distribution of a library. Background I started working with a project (let's call it lib-xyz) that initially used a GPL library. The project is a collection of classes and algorithms that are meant to be used as a library. Regarding the usage of the GPL library, only a clas...
Here's the scenario. I have a website and I want to start open-sourcing some of the modules that I've developed. I originally looked into the GPL, but I notice there's a loophole where people don't have to share their modifications if they're used on a public website. I then found AGPL which seems better suited to my scenario, but have...
Hi, We have a WAMP server. We have to deliver it to the client and ensure that only one instance of the server can be used. We are looking for a simple protection(since any scheme can be broken). Basically, we want to limit the number of server installs to 1. Please let me know a solution that can be implemented in a short time. Thanks...
I'm a bit confused over the Intel Threading Building Blocks commercial vs open source license. The open source version is licensed under GPLv2 with the runtime exception, but what does that imply in plain english? Can it be used in a commercial, closed source application as long as it just links with the unmodified .dlls? ...
I would like to publish my application, which is AGPL. It can be downloaded from my website. But the archive also contains other libraries with different licenses: XStream (BSD) GWT (Apache2) gwt-dnd (Apache2) gwt-upload (Apache2) Commons Fileupload (Apache2) JDOM (Apache-style) iText (AGPL) JFreeChart (LGPL) JavaMail (JavaMail) I di...
Created one windows applcation. now i would like to give licence for it by keeping expiry date. am planning to keep expiry date in registries. the porblem is.. how can i get the actaul date. ie; when user changes the system date also- this should not change.(i meran expiry date.) Am looking for logics to acheive this..!! ...
I'm aware that any licensing registry key can be detected using monitoring tools, just want to secure it against ordinary users. What places of registry look fit for storing a key? ...
If I use Tigase(xmpp server demon) on my server (not distributing it) and build custom plugin(stay within server). Do I have to release my source codes? What if my website have google adsense and If I build some commercial usage plugs for tigase for my own website use. I have no clue how GPL license work for software which we don't distr...
Hi, I will be developing an application in Qt, using Qt under the LGPL license. Can I sell it to a client, without providing the source code for it? ...
So I am almost finished with my first app. It was constructed in Visual Studio/C#. I am now trying to determine which license to run with. I plan to provide the program free of charge to businesses and consumers, however, I do not want to publish the source code. What is the best licensing format to go with? This application is kind of ...
I am the project manager for a Game Development Interest Group at my college and we are currently developing a game that we would like to release for free. The actual source code of the game I would like to license under the GPL (This is because I want any re-distributions or derivative works of our game to also release the source code ...
We are using a third party UI component which requires a licence.licx file. The problem is that the executable is a cpp project and embedding the licence.licx file into the dll which actually uses the third party component does not seem to work. By "does not work" I mean that we get runtime licensing errors when executing the program on ...
Hi I have lots of plugins and each has it's own license at the top and they can be a bit on the long side. I am trying to minifiy and compress everything to get the smallest sizes possible but these licenses can add quite a bit of KB. So I am wondering if I can just remove them or maybe just link to the file instead since I understand ...
I am going to be developing a desktop application in C++ that I'd like to protect by requiring a license file. My initial idea was to have 2 executables. One would the actual program that I ran some sort of symmetric encryption on and the second executable would decrypt and run the program using a license file on the user's computer. Ho...
our software is free to download the source comes with it, so you are free to edit the code for your own use we (the authors) own the rights to the code ...
Hi all, We are trying to use the .NET LicenseManger/Provider for our own custom component. However, it seems that this can't really be used if the licensed control will be wrapped in a 3rd party user control itself, since the saved license is always embedded in the control assembly in that case, which would force the consumer of that co...