I have a GPL open source project that in its early days is going to be of interest mostly to academics and research groups. This group can sometimes be very competitive, and a research group could modify and improve the code for their internal use but never release it. The GPL says this is fine, since they have not distributed the code....
Most open source projects I've seen were from Europe or North America and very few (can't even remember any) from other parts like Asia. Is it just because I can't read other languages, or has the GPL and open source in general not taken off outside of North America and Europe? Does anyone have examples of open source projects coming ...
As a newbie, I am quite confused how open source software is can/be licensed. I know of licenses like GNU public, Apache, and others. What is the procedure to license a open source software by developer? What considerations should be made? What choices do I have? ...
I am planning to use FLEE (www.flee.codeplex.com) as my expression evaluator. However, I believe that it is not being maintained. Does the LGPL add support for converting to another language? (VB->C#) And, I wan't to add features of .net numerics (specifically some functions) to this branch of flee. Can I Do that? (.net numerics is MIT...
If one uses a GPL-licensed tool as part of their build process (of open source software), and... In your documentation it states that programmers must download such tool in order to properly build the software The GPL-licensed tool is not part of the resulting software package in any way You provide a download for this tool from your o...
I am building simple cms in codeigniter for private use. what license is best for me like MIT or apache or something else ? or I shouldn't ? please advice me. Thanks Added: I am installing it for other small private businesses, I don't know which license is good. Or do I not need one ? please advise ...
I have a C# app that hooks into a GPLed DLL via DllImport. The DLL has its own installer which we plan to package with and run from our own app's installer. Will these require us to GPL our own app as well? ...
I was hoping GPLv3 would make GPLv2 easier to understand for the layman, but when I came across the phrase "propagate by procuring conveyance" what the heck is that supposed to mean!?!? I spent a lot of quality time with a thesaurus and tried to understand this alone. Given the effort required to understand a sentence, I'm quite certai...
I would like to make some source code publicly available, but prevent it from being used for commercial purposes. Which license should I use? And more importantly, are there any measures I can take to prevent, discourage or detect commercial use? Or should I simply accept that if I make the source code publicly available it might be use...
It is widely accepted that Open Source also means free of charge. In particular, the "Open Source" definition by the Open Source Initiative states that Open Source, in addition to access to the source code and other criteria, means free redistribution. Their given rationale is: By constraining the license to require free redistribu...
What is the best way of connecting some installed software with a certain computer via internet? I guess each install package (disk) should have its unique serial number. And the serial number should be connected to the computers unique parameters during installation, isn't it? As I know there are some approches that take from computer C...
I have winform application written in c#. I would like this application to only gets installed in a single machine e.g. M1. If a user tries to install the application in M2, he/she will get an error says "installation aborted due to .... etc". I will have to check MAC Address and Machine Name, if they match the one hard-coded in the app...
Does anyone have any experience or suggestions for providing basic licensing support for a Silverlight 4 application? I'm especially interested in the case where the application is running out-of-browser. I'd like to be able to provide some sort of time-limited licensing option in this case. One option I've considered is implementing s...
First, excuse my english, I am french. 1- Hi, I would like to develop an app doing pedestrian rally in a specific city, displaying photos and question to user. 2- I would like to buy 15 Ipod touch under my name, and rent them for corporate activity. 3- I read that ad hoc distribution is good only for testing and/or for only employees ...
Let's say a team plans on developing an application based on an open source project named "FreeApp". We are developing this application with the ultimate goal of heavily modifying and re-distributing FreeApp under a different, branded name, as a paid application. The current license allows this. My question is, years/months down the ro...
I use Maven to build my web app projects, when I add some dependent library to the pom file, it again adds some more dependent jars to the project recursively. Is there a way to find out or restrict that only jars having a certain type of license - say Apache License, BSD etc should be included. Or is there a way to find out that a jar f...
Hello, A programmer has created a Microsoft Office Add-In (PC) for me. We would now like to implement online activation of the add-in. Is anyone aware of an open source solution to handle serial number validation via online activation? Many thanks for any insight anyone can offer. ...
How can i implement licensing application like 30 day trial free ...
This is a question about licensing 3rd-party software components, which are to be included/used in your own software. When you license a software component from a component vendor, many vendors will also allow you to get the source code (for an extra fee). I'm talking about a not-for-resale and not-for-redistribution source code licens...
I was considering licensing some code under the WTFPL. I was amused by the text of the license and the FAQ on the site, and felt that the spirit of the license suited the spirit of the code. I showed the license to a friend and he sent me the following response, which I thought was very interesting: I don't know much about licensing ...