licensing

Overlay pop-up user license agreement

Hello! I'm looking to create a Javascript Pop-up Agree/Deny User License Agreement when people visit any page on my website. I just need suggestions on a good Javascript plugin to use for my idea. What I'm looking for: Never pop-up's again after user clicks Accept (To prevent pop-up every time user clicks a link.) Visitor canno...

Asp.net solution Licensing

Hi, Im developing an asp.net mvc 2 project and I would like to implement the following licensing scheme: Customers can buy the solution compiled or with the source code (the second option it will be more expensive). So if they buy the source code they can customize it as they need. But I would like them to pay for each copy of my softw...

Venturi Licensing for my App

I'm looking for some existing code to interface my app with venturi licensing. I'm a bit behind on the whole encryption thing and don't want to re-create the wheel. Does anyone have a working piece they use? I'm writing in C++ and objective-C. Thanks. ...

commercial license for MariaDB

hi there, I'm currently working on a closed-source commercial web-project which uses MariaDB as database. I wonder about the licensing of MariaDB. Does anybody know, if we had to get a license to use it with our commercial project? On the website, they mention the "GNU General Public License, version 2". What means that exactly? http://...

How can I implement license protection on my software?

How can I implement license protection on my .NET desktop application and make it machine peer license? What can i study from? I just a newbie on this. Thank you ...

Can I use perforce in my company?

Our company didn't buy any perforce, but I want to use it. For example to install the server and client, is there any license issue? By default, perforce supports two users and five client workspaces, that's enough for our small company. detailed licensing as following.. Licensing You may use software downloaded from Perfor...

looking for a restrictive open source license

found a solution, thanks anyway ...

Can the Microsoft Direct X SDK be put into SVN?

Hi folks, I'd like to put the inflated copy of the Direct X SDK into SVN (so that projects can reference the include/libraries as an external) however I'm kind of unsure as to whether this is allowed in the licence. The only relevant line seems to be: BACKUP COPY. You may make one backup copy of the software. You may use it onl...

Product Serial Key / Purchase

I am attempting to create an application which, at some point, I would like to sell. I understand that any protection scheme can be bypassed. Could you recommend any ideas on what would be easy for the end user but also be at least slightly resistant to piracy. I've had some ideas about: The user creating an account when the buy the s...

Openlayers commericial application: licensing issues?

I am planning on creating a commercial fleet/asset tracking web app, but got discouraged when I found our about the high price Google and Microsoft charge to use their services in a commercial setting. I found Openlayers, and it claims to be free, so I am wondering if anyone has had experience using it commercially? I looks like the us...

How should I display the copyright notice of the libraries I use ?

The license code of one of the libraries I use (namely, Infragistics) requests that : You include a valid copyright notice on your SOFTWARE. Right now, I've only got my own Copyright notice, ie Copyright C 2008-2010 MyCompany I plan on adding something like the following, but I thought maybe someone would know about a standar...

How to prevent over-installation of software

I have a software product installed on multiple machines at a client's site. The software accesses a database which is located on a server. I have given them an MSI so that they can install the software on further machines if required. How can I programmatically place a limit on the number of machines the software can be installed on?...

Live Testing of the Android LVL

I have a paid app that's been out in the Android Market for a few months now, and up to this point that app had no type of copy protection or license verification scheme. I have just finished adding an modified version of the LVL code to my app. To test out the code's license response handling, I signed into my dev account on the emulat...

Is my whole software MIT licensed if some part of it use MIT licensed software?

Possible Duplicate: Proprietary software based on MIT license. If my intention is to sell my software which include MIT licensed software, do I have to license my entire software under MIT license? If I need to do this, does this then give my customer the right to distribute my software for free/money? If I don't need to lic...

Going into partnership on a software project as the lead developer - How to licence the software to the company, licence type?

[Note - I asked this question on http://programmers.stackexchange.com, but the question was closed as apparently that's not the place to ask it. The community on http://answers.onstartups.com/ do not seem to be the people to help with this either, so I am asking ok Stack Overflow, hopefully the right place!] I'm, going into partnership ...

What's the default license of code published at github ?

When no license is explicitly attached to a piece of code hosted at github (neither as a separate file, nor in the headers, nor in the readme), what is the default license inherited by the code ? ...

Legal to sell qt application?

would it be legal to sell a qt/c++ application (lgpl) without buying a license? And would doing the same but with pyqt(GPL) be legal? If it's not, should I explicitely tell the customer (It's an specific application for only a few customers) It's license, I don't think he/she would understand a thing. And I guess we will install the soft...

Selling a PHP application

I wanted to get some thoughts on selling a PHP application (CMS). I intend on offering a free version that may include ads or be limited in some way. My main concern is how to detect if the user has purchased a license or the paid version or not. My idea is to have a file (license.php) which will check a variable against one on my datab...

ribbon controls in delphi

(sorry this question is not based on software but about legal issues ) I have used tms ribbon controls and ribbon controls came with Delphi 2009 in my project. i can remember the Delphi setup warned me about ribbon controls and said me to get license from microsoft. whats is the licences and can i distribute this application as a comerc...

Can I use implementations of SIFT algorithm?

Hello, I'm interested in image recognition. From what I have found I can say that SIFT algorithm is one of the best of the available solutions. However, SIFT is protected with a US patent, so I wonder if I can use this algorithm in my code? I could found many implementation of SIFT, some of them are open source, what makes me think tha...