Questions tagged [licensing]
Questions about the implementation of software licenses on software. General questions about open source software licenses should be asked at opensource.stackexchange.com instead. Legal questions about software licenses should be asked at law.stackexchange.com instead.
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What does it mean, if a C or C++ header with non-trivial code is LGPL licensed? [migrated]
LGPL has certain requirements for software that uses LGPL libraries. The most common way to satisfy these in otherwise closed-source software is to supply the LGPL library as a dynamic library, which ...
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What should replace intra-file license headers in source files in judrisdictions which necessitate it?
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Some modern, commonplace markup, data interchange, and programming languages still do not support comments. The most popular of this is standard JSON, [1] but I've encountered it when writing ...
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Open source projects, SBOMs and security
I was just reading a StackOverflow question here, about extracting the version number from a node package.json file. And the simple
'read in the json and access the property in your build tool'
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Does importing and using a package count as dynamic linking in scripting languages?
In interpreted languages like R and Python if I import and module, and use its functions, is that considered as dynamic linking of my program to that module?
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What's stopping an app from using another platform's storage, for free?
Let me clarify on a bit of an abstract question.
I'm about to develop an app, through which users can capture and store images. Commercially, the main cost here that springs to mind is storage cost.
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Desktop application: preventing abuse of online license scheme?
Software companies like Autodesk, Adobe, etc all offer online licensing schemes with the following features:
(1) to use the software, you must login from your workstation to activate your license
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VM-images: how protect time-license programs?
One big customer asked me to supply my program to run within a balanced VM-images structure; I mean, the program will be recorded into an image which will be launched in "instances" to ...
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Software license for paid open-source app on Microsoft Store [closed]
What is the right software license to use in order to be able to sell my application, have it be open-source, and still be able to accept pull requests?
I am developing a productivity/utility ...
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What counts as disclosing source for software licenses? [closed]
MPL v2, GPL v3 and other licenses alike require giving users access to source code.
For desktop applications - does access have to be provided through the user interface (GUI)? Or can it just be ...
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How to deliver a website to the customer VM (real server) with a trial period?
I have a website that was writing using .net stack technologies. It is accessible via the internet. Some of my potential (Enterprise) customers want me to install the whole website on their own VM and ...
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May I and should I include my dependencies in the jar i publish online?
I'm developing a java project that I'd eventually like to publish and make open source.
To make a executable jar file I use the maven-assembly-plugin. This includes my dependencies in the jar, which ...
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Is it secure to make a seperate project which checks whether a license is active
I am trying to make a project which will help me to implement feature based licensing in future projects. The projects in this solution are C#/WPF Projects.
So I have a Helper-Project with a class &...
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Can I release my own work with CreativeCommon BY-NC-SA license (Non Commercial), and still make a commercial use myself?
I have released works with MIT licence, others with CC BY-SA, etc.
But for a specific work, I'd like to share it with Creative Commons BY-SA-NC, i.e. I don't want people who will modify/fork it to ...
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Release App to Apple and Google Stores - Demo account, only company users and User Generated Content scope
I develop for a company an Ionic cross-platform mobile app that will be published on Apple's App Store and Google's Play Store.
I read Apple's Review Guidelines and Google's Developer Program Policy ...
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Licensing a spring boot application inside an AMI
Say we have a standalone spring boot application which we are going to distribute by creating an AMI and sharing on the AWS marketplace. Since the jar is available inside the AMI, I want to stop a ...
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