What ways are there to protect licensing enforcement mechanisms in C/C++? I know of: Using macros (but that make the code difficult to maintain) Linking statically Obfuscating symbol names Other methods I am not sure about: Using C++ templates Using inline functions ...
If I was to integrate a third-party GPLv3,v2 or LGPL django app in my django project, would the licence apply to the complete project or just the third-party application I'm using? ...
Hello, I have been reading through the CodePlex supported open source licenses, i couldn't quite understand everything, What i am looking for is a License that restrict the use of my source code commercialy. is there one? Thanks ...
If I create an application, using Shoes, would I have to license it under a open source license, or can I use it for closed-source/propietary stuff? The framework consists of a lot of moving parts, so it's not entirely clear to me. EDIT: The reason why I'm asking, is because of the notes at this page: Since both anal_pe and XPwn are...
Also, has anyone ever used it for a successful commercial application? Red hat is pretty vague on their website.. and have not answered my emails yet. ...
Boring introduction: In my workplace, we have a very old WinForms product (in market since 1994, and still running on VB3). It has three very different versions, each of them goes to one client. The clients pass it on to their users, some of which are shared. The versions can live side-by-side. Five years ago, we rewrote one of those v...
Are there any ready-made license blocks for proprietary code? I have some part-completed code. Before I send it to anyone, I'd like to add a license block to the top of each file. I can find plenty of blocks for liberal licenses such as the MPL boilerplate, but I'd like something a little more restrictive, at least for now. Basically, ...
Suppose several companies want to share a set of core libraries, and build their own products on top of them. Also, each company will be updating the core libraries. How would I go about licensing the core libraries? I'm thinking that I'd like something like the MIT license, but rather than having an open source project shared with th...
Google is failing me on this one. Let's say I have some ECMA script that I've compiled to an ABC bytecode file using the compiler in the Open Source Flex SDK. Is it within the terms of use (That I can't seem to find) for me to use the AVM2 specification from adobe to create a new interpreter for this file? The best I can manage is a s...
It says that rubyscript2exe license is GPL, but I can't understand the following: If I create an executable with it, may I use the application I created in my company without contribute it to the GNU society (without sharing my Ruby code?) Can I even include it in our product and sell my executable as a part of our product? Here is the...
Hey, I have compiled my .NET application as a web deployment project and gathered a bunch of DLLs containing the code behind etc. I was wondering what is the most popular way to protect these DLL's ? Licensing came up a few times during my searches, can anyone shed more light on this ? Or any other ideas would be welcome thanks ...
I work at a company where the rule basically is (as I understand it) that you cannot use any code unless (a) you write the code yourself or (b) there is some explicit indemnification clause guarding your use of any other code (like open source code). I am finding this making my coding difficult. For example, coding samples in books are ...
I want to create a wrapper around another executable (ie - I have an executable that prints hello World, but I want the user to enter a password before the hello world executable is run). I don't want to edit the original executable's source. I also want to encrypt the original executable (hello world in this example) and do not want to...
I'm interested in a program that does not exist in my favourite programming language. Though, I want to port it to that language. Am I allowed to port a program, that is published under the GNU GPL, from one programming language to another? Which licensing issues will occur? CLARIFICATION This is not about translating the GUI or out...
http://www.mancosoftware.com/licensing/index.htm Just wondering what your thoughts are on it, if it's relatively good for the 80$ charge. We realize stuff will still get cracked, but prevention from the masses is also good to consider. Any input is appreciated. ...
I have one query related to mysql licensing. I am developing a desktop application for commercial purpose and using mysql community server (5.0) as backend database server. We dont install mysql server and driver from our application installer. If user wants to install our application on his machine then he first needs to install MySql s...
We need a user control that can show Microsoft Office files (Word, Excel..). There is no need for editing them. As I can see, there are available standalone viewer applications that can be downloaded from Microsoft site, but I am wondering if it could be embedded within an user control. I think that there could be a COM/ActiveX compone...
Simple question, but one I can't find an answer to on the MSDN subscriber site: As an MSDN Professional Subscriber, can I install the same copy of Windows 2008 in multiple VMs at the same time? The MSDN keys state that they can be used for "multiple activations", but they don't state whether these are sequential or concurrent. I seem to...
Should I create my own End-User Software License (with a lawyer), or are there some good examples of one on the Internet? I'm getting close to rolling out my first Windows-based program for my side-business. I would like to have the end-users to agree not to: resell the software, change/modify it, use it in another application, etc. An...
I'm about to purchase a copy of Windows Server 2008 (User CAL, 5 CLT) is IIS Going to be limited to 5 concurrent anonmous internet users? ...