If you have a WPF control library which you wanted to license to developers, how do enforce license restrictions such that the library could be used and distributed in their own applications and yet prevent the end-users from reusing that .dll? I'm approaching this from a strict business perspective, so I'm trying to find a solution tha...
I want to get the VB.NET or VB code to access the hard disk serial no when starting the program. It's to help me to protect my own software from people who try to pirate copies. ...
Hi All, I am confused about the licensing model for Microsoft PerformancePoint Server. When I look at http://www.microsoft.com/business/performancepoint/howtobuy/default.aspx I see a 20,000 USD Server License, plus a 200 USD CAL license. But the language is a bit vague about what this means-- is CAl required for any user looking at r...
Hi, I am looking to use a database / data file shared under the CC ShareAlike 3.0 License for my website. It says under the license that I am free to remix the work as long as I attribute the work and I share it under the same license. That said, would I have to 1) open source my website? 2) make every service on the website using th...
I'd like to use gSOAP in a product which will be distributed commercially. The use I have in mind is what I suspect is a pretty typical workflow—generating a header using wsdl2h, consuming the header with soapcpp2, and then calling the functions generated in the stub in my code. I'm not 100 percent sure which license(s) I need to use to...
Hi, I'm looking at this 3rd party licensing component, and I'm curious what measures they can take to secure a .net desktop application? they provide things like: trial version, registered version using a license key. It also can lock the application if their license expires. It is a C++ dll under the covers, and in .net you have to ...
My startup is planning to work with a recommendation system developer company to improve our product. The only problem is, that they wouldn't like to give us the source code at the end of the project because of the unique algorithms implemented. We plan long-term co-operation with this team, but the recommendation engine is a core part ...
In a situation where you have something like a Lite, Normal, Ultimate tiers and overlapping feature sets that may have reduced functionality what would be the easiest way to keep things simple from a development standpoint? I've only worked with applications that had either a monolithic license, a sub feature license where specific comp...
Does anyone know the details of the Qt commercial license? Cost? Hidden policy gotchas, single and multi platform etc? Forgive my laziness, however their website offers few details and I thought I would ask here about anyone's specific experiences prior to submitting to the sales pitch. Is the commercial vs open source installation dif...
For a web application, I would like to create a simple but effective licensing system. In C#, this is a little difficult, since my decryption method could be viewed by anyone with Reflector installed. What are some methods for encrypting files in C# that are fairly tamper-proof? ...
Just been looking at the threading building blocks, and as their license, they say it's the GPLv2 with the runtime exception. On the Intel page itself they say that the commercial license is the right one if you need commercial support. So what's the deal if I'm doing a commercial, closed source application which uses the TBB, but I don...
We're planning a browser application (xbap) which is going to talk to WCF services. These WCF services get information from a SQL database. Each of our clients has his own database on this server. The clients need to get reports from SQL Reporting Services. A client can have multiple instances of this application running. How does this ...
Is it actually legal to download proprietary programs available from "abandonware" websites such as http://www.abandonia.com? Furthermore, If decide to decompile a program obtained from such a website, with a tool such as Boomerang, would I be able to make my own modifications and distribute it under a free/Open Source license? ...
Part of a web application I'm working on turns text into speech and then turns the wav stream into a mp3 using LAME encoder. How would one go about licensing the mp3 encoder with the company that owns the patent so we can redistribute the web application and still be legal and what could be cost be involved with that or would it be bett...
My company is trying to find a tool that will track serial keys for software we have purchased (such as Office), as well as software that we write and sell. We want software that will allows us to associate a particular computer with the software on that computer and the serial key(s) and license(s) for that software. We'd also like to ...
I work for a software / design firm and I recently found out that our "in house" CMS is actually MODx that has been re-skinned by one of our designers. MODx is licensed under the GPL Ver 2.. I would like to know if it is ethical / legal to be selling this to clients. We also offer another package that is actually ZenCart, is this legal...
I am looking for information about providing a license, or "terms of use", for a web application. The Wikipedia article is very limited, and it seems that unlike "downloadable" software (or perhaps "installable" software, for lack of a better term), for which there is much more information, not so much has been written specifically for t...
there are a few posts asking about free icon sets (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/139944/where-can-one-find-free-software-icons-images), but I couldn't find anything that specifically answered this question: For commerical websites, what is required of you to use the icon sets based upon their license? It seems like with GPL/LGPL...
Some guys here mentioned that they are using the HTML Agility Pack library. It is distributed under Creative Commons (Attribution-ShareAlike) license. Can I use it in the commercial closed-source application? Thanks. ...
If I develop a GUI wrapper that only executes a GPL cli application (for the sake of argument, say tar) must I release the GUI wrapper as GPL? Is it a derivitive work? If it is a derivative work what must I release? Both the GPL application and the wrapper will be distributed together ...