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I am, roughly speaking on the opposite side of Can someone re-license my BSD-3-licensed project under the MIT license, remove my copyright notices, and list me as a "collaborator" without ...
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Let's say I have a project in which I use modified LGPL libraries that is used by my own code. As far as I understand it, I am obligated to publish the changes I made to the LGPL libraries, and I am ...
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I’m looking for a copyleft license or CLA for a library I’m developing that meets the following requirements: The library itself remains fully copyleft (e.g., GPLv3). Only I, the original author, am ...
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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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I'm working on a project that I'm going to use the MIT license for. I'm including code from another project that's not mine also licensed under MIT. I'm getting a tiny bit confused how my license ...
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I’m building a commercial web application that runs entirely in the browser. I want to use a JavaScript library that is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL v2 or later). Here’s my plan: ...
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It seems more and more people see no problem with pushing or otherwise releasing LLM-generated code/work as their own. However, it occurs to me, that every free/open/libre licence I can think of ...
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Suppose a web-based scientific application uses an AGPL-licensed computational backend. What practical strategies allow the frontend to interface with that backend without triggering broader AGPL ...
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Say an individual builds a personal blogging site using Wordpress, with a contact form plugin that includes some JavaScript on the contact form page. This plugin is available, as a whole, under the ...
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I have created a programming language (an interpreter, a dedicated text-editor, reference manual and documentation, including usage examples), and I would like to publish it. I am interested in the ...
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I would like to create a plugin for Qt Creator, and I understand the term from Qt Company GPL Exception 1.0(https://github.com/qt-creator/qt-creator/blob/master/LICENSES/LICENSE.GPL3-EXCEPT) Exception ...
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Over time, even well-managed projects risk losing design consistency as contributors add code in slightly different styles. Beyond code review, what strategies keep large open-source projects ...
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What “distribute” and “contributions” mean exactly for the CC BY-SA 4.0 license? Let’s take a real example for the sake of illustration: I intend to use the data provided by an online dictionary ...
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(I can not imagine this was not asked before, maybe I was just too stupid to find it. For this case I am thankful for a hint/link.) I have read texts that say you can earn money with that in the ...
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I have built a class for extending PHPMailer and wish to release it via composer/packagist. <?php /** * PHPMailerMonkeyZeus - Description. * * @author MonkeyZeus * @copyright 2025 MonkeyZeus ...
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