licensing

How does GPLv3 apply to source code generated from XML?

How does the GPLv3 license apply to source code generated from a XML? Will I have to put the license in the XML files and/or the generated source? EDIT: What I am is doing is this: The XML are like compile-time "plugins" into this program that I have. Partly my question is that are the XMLs required to be included in the distributed sou...

Investing time and effort on Java?

Hi, as a student that is planning to create a startup, I've been developing a Java based Web Framework that aims to simplify developing scalable web applications. It's been a long time since I started to work on this project and as a seasoned web developer I'm happy with the result. I was planning to use this framework for my future web ...

Can I relicense someone's MIT code under GPL

I've picked up an open source project (an application) which was released under MIT license. I've made many modifications to it and have been working on it and would like to release my version under a GPL license. I heard that licenses like the MIT and New BSD are more permissive than the GPL, and vaguely remember reading that it's pos...

Is license information of a project's dependencies required when releasing a maven project as open source?

I am about to release a project I have been working with for some time as open source, but before I release it to the wild I want the code to be licensed properly. The project has several dependencies, on e.g. Jetty and Spring, and uses Maven for dependency management. Now, my question is: do I need to care about and/or add license infor...

what's meant by "Charge for development licenses"

Hi I was downloading Qt creator IDE and they say "Charge for development licenses" with a (True) under Commercial and (FALSE) under LGPL. Also I need to know something general About QT library. is it free so I can make (commercial products and sell ) or I will have to buy something to do that. EDIT: the page is Actually about QT t...

gplV2: can i use it for free or not?

i'm confused, i've read the GPLV2 (and lesser GPL and all of them) over and over again, but i don't get it, and maybe you can: i'm creating a website for a client. I get paid for that. When i'm done, the app won't be open source, it is solely meant to be used by my client. Now i want to use a nice user control in it, but the control is...

Multiple software licenses across a project

How does one go about including multiple licenses in software? For example, I'm working on a project that I would license as GPLv3. I'd like to include some libraries from the Apache Commons (Apache license 2.0). These libraries are distributed with both NOTICE.txt and LICENSE.txt, which to my understanding must be included in my projec...