Hi, I'd like to use some MIT-licensed xml-parsing code in my iPhone game. This seems to require that I package the MIT license with the application. However, my iPhone app does not include extensive documentation and my demographic will not want legal notices shoved in their faces. My boss is afraid of using this code because our compa...
I often want to release small projects of mine for others to see/use/improve. I have used the GPL with a couple of my projects, but I would like to be more permissive than that--so I chose the MIT license. My question is, how would I go about releasing software under the MIT license? What steps do I need to take? I've looked a bit on th...
What is the difference between licensing a program under the MIT license (or the BSD one) and putting it in the public domain? ...
There are many questions posted with great answers, but nothing I found met my requirements. Hope you guys can help. I will be building a niche social site platform based on Ruby on Rails and will integrate trusted popular gems to save time. The final product will be launched where users can sign-in to use the basic services for free, a...
The MIT license states: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Does this apply to just the source code? Or must copyright also be included in all compiled forms including binary and executable. For those who were wondering, the license d...
As far as I understand. I can use a project licensed under MIT license into a proprietary software. Am I right? It dosen't force any copyleft and I don't have to say that my project is based on something else. That means I can fork the hell out of it, right? Can someone shed some light over this? ...
I have a Ruby on Rails application, and now I would like to add blog into it. Just a simple blog with basic features and single author. What are the possible solutions? I need to use my authorization system (I used authlogic for my app) Since I am developing for a customer, I need MIT/BSD licence. I would prefer lightweight solution. ...
I would like to embed JQuery into an embedded device running a web server. Being an embedded device, storage is at a premium. Here is the comment header of JQuery: /* * jQuery JavaScript Library v1.3.2 * http://jquery.com/ * * Copyright (c) 2009 John Resig * Dual licensed under the MIT and GPL licenses. * http://docs.jquery.com/...
I've found something cool which I'd like to use in my project. Because I'm a pro and earn money with programming, I consider my own little project also to be "commercial". So this cool lib I have in mind has an "MIT-style license". Is that one something similar to GPL? Or more restrictive? Or less restrictive? It's an javascript library....
Hallo, I have a small useful application (Websites managment tool developed in Java) which I want to publish online for free (every one can use it for free). But I do not want to make it opne source yet. It is additional affort to clean up the code, documantation and so on... And this is just a small useful tool. Can I use the MIT lic...
Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to release code I am working on which uses third party code licensed under the LGPL, under for instance the MIT License? Basically I dont want to change the license of the LGPL part, I am just wondering what happens with it if I chose a different license for the whole package or if that is even po...
I'm rewriting a small MIT-licensed program in C, and I intend to copy a segment from it (though not verbatim) that prints usage information and such things. The programs are going to behave, for the most part, the same, but the implementations are going to be much different. What is the best way to incorporate this code into my program,...
For a project at my company, we need a interpreter. I have two candidates, one licensed under the GPLv2, the other under MIT License (pyMite VM and eLua, respectively). Both will require porting to my target (PowerPC). Is it possible to pull the code in as a library of some sort, and thus avoid having to release code for the entire proj...
Hi I am trying to under various licenses.. but MIT / BSD seems not clear in few aspects. Please give your opinion on the following about MIT license.. I know that MIT license allows a licensee to distribute it under a different license. But is it applicable only to derivative work or can also apply to verbatim copy of the original so...
Hi, On the official webpage of MIT-license is written following: Copyright (c) <year> <copyright holders> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without ...
Is it possible to summarize the differences among various open source licenses in one sentence? Some require that the source remain open forever (GPL), and others let you fork derivatives as closed source (is this considered equivalent to CC-share-alike?). Some require attribution. Some require non-commercialization. Speaking along this...
I am developing an open source Java library which will be licensed under the Apache License 2.0. Can I copy code (one method with minor modifications ) from another MIT licensed library. If I can, how should I mark the copyrights then? ...
If I have a website which implements a number of open source licensed libraries (For example, jQuery, jQuery UI, along with half a dozen plugins), is it OK to take the copyright notice out of the JavaScript source files, and place it on it's own web page for all to view? It means that I am still attributing the developers, but I also sa...
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...
Hi Guys, I'm currently publishing my simple PHP framework in GitHub. Do I need to make/apply for any License Agreement/EULA (or any other legal stuff)? I'm not really particular if other people would use it. I just want to be credited(if there's some) and also have some disclaimers. The MIT license is pretty much what I need but I don'...