I have found the MIT Open Courseware to be a great resource for free computer science college courses. Every software engineer should be required to take the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs class. Berkeley and Carnegie Mellon also provide some great online courses. Are there any more colleges that offer quality compu...
I've found a unmaintained program I have a need for, but it's not perfect, so I would like to fork it and to continue fixing it. The current version is licensed under the GPL (version 2 and up), but I would prefer to integrate my version with some other code I wrote, licensed under the MIT, and combine them all to a usable library. The...
I have recently been wondering why so little code is ever released as 'Public Domain'. MIT and BSD licenses are becoming extremely popular and practically only have the restriction of license propagation. The reasons I can think of so far are: Credit - aka Prestige, Street-cred, 'Props', etc. Authors don't want usage of the code rest...
Suppose I use this actioscript API released under MIT license to build a software : http://www.cove.org/ape/docs/api/ (i) Can I sell that software? (ii) Do I need to give the source code of my software away? (iii) Is anyone receiving my software permitted to resell the software? ...
Hello, I am trying to understand various licenses. I usually do small projects in which I use say a jquery plugin which is under MIT license. Now is it okay for me to do the same? Is there a sort of a matrix which compares all the licenses (major ones atleast) and tells me just one thing: Royalty-free ability to use in commercial proj...
I know this is going to be long but I felt like I needed to explain the whole situation and my concerns in detail. Thanks in advance for reading and answering this question! I'd like to write an application that depends on GPL licensed libraries or applications. However, I'm not keen on licensing my own code under GPL alone because I th...
I'm working on a Web App Framework that I'd like to put under the Eclipse Public License for various reasons. The only problem is that I want to include jQuery in the framework, and that is under the GPL and / or MIT licenses. Edit 1: The core of the framework is coded in PHP, using jQuery to jazz up the client side of things. I'm not t...
I've written what I believe are some useful classes that I'd like to release into the wild. These are small enough that I'm strongly considering just releasing them under the WTFPL. Part of the reason for writing these is for a project that I'm working on which I would eventually like to release open source under most likely the BSD or M...
Hello, The company I am working for is developing a web application layer for a commercial software product. My questions have probably been answered before but I have searched and I can't find a similar scenario to my question. The Web UI will be developed using jQuery and involve using the excellent pre-built plugins other users have...
I found a great DAL and it is MIT licensed. Can I use this code without getting into trouble? ...
I've never had much need for writing large quantities of formal pseudo-code but the need has arisen, so I thought I'd pick some standards in order to stay consistent across code. To that effect I picked up some "iTunes U" courseware videos, amongst other things the 6.046J / 18.410J Introduction to Algorithms (SMA 5503). In the very fir...
I would like to make a program and licence it under MIT. However, I would like to use the GPLv3 PyQt library in it. Is this legal? PS. Is there any difference with GPLv2? ...
MIT/BSD licenses basically say: Hey, use the stuff, but don't claim it's yours. CC-By license (without nc and the such, just the plain cc-by) says: Hey, use the stuff, but don't claim it's yours. Now is there any substantial difference between these licenses? What is the legalese trying to hide from our suspicious eyes? One point I co...
I'm learning Programming/Python from MIT OpenCourseware video lectures (link to the course), but the video quality is too low so I can't follow any of the code used in the lecture. Does anyone have (or can get, and upload) handouts provided for the course? Many thanks ...
Can I, without permission of anybody, relicense some software from MIT/BSD license to GPL license legally? For example, may I take the Google Chrome web browser and re-release it under the GPL (under another name)? It is just "what if" question. I will not do this, I promise. ...
My own application will use libpurple. Since libpurple is GPL'd, I wonder if I could use MIT or BSD license for my application? ...
if i modify a source file in a piece of mit licensed code does that mean i need to open source it too or can i keep it closed source? Basically if i distribute my program which uses a piece of modified mit licensed code and somebody asks for the mit code, do i just point him the original piece of code or do i have him my modifications t...
Hi I'm about to release some software as open source. It uses Lucene (Apache license) and jopt simple (MIT license). Are there any constraints on the license that I am going to apply to my own software? In particular, it is an adaptation of Lucene for performing content-based search on audio (so, many classes are inherited and in one c...
I'm putting some source code up on codeplex, and I need to select a licence, and I feel like MIT is most simple and fitting from the options I have. But I need to specify copyright holders, who are these? I hope that somebody would want to contribute to the source code, so I don't feel like I can put myself as copyright holder. Can I pu...
I am running MIT Scheme on Snow Leopard. The problem is: when I type single quote (') I get the acute accent character (´) instead. That makes it almost impossible to program in Scheme, because I can't quote symbols, lists etc. I got MIT Scheme from Mac Ports, but the same thing happens on MIT Scheme downloaded from http://ftp.gnu.org/g...