licensing

I'm trying to figure out in which of these cases the legal ramifications of "Derivative work" come into play. When exactly is my code a derivative work ? A PHP framework released under the GPL. Isn't that GPL invalid since PHP has it's own license and you are using PHP to build that framework? A Commercial Wordpress theme? Isn't that a "Derivative work" and hence invalid because wordpress is GPL? A commercial class which is inserted into an existing GPL framework - yet does not include references to that framework inside that class. Is that a derivative work? You see, I originally thought that

My question consists of multiple points that are inherently related, I apologize for that. I tried splitting it up a little more, but I would keep repeating myself. What exactly is required to apply an open source license to a code base that is my Intellectual Property? A lot of Open Source projects include a full copy of the license somewhere in a root directory but do also have some sort of file header including a license description, disclaimer and a copyright notice. Is that really necessary or does it depend on the license type? If someone else contributes changes to this file, does he

What is the difference between the Affero General Public License and the GNU General Public License (GPL) ? Assume the following: You are developing a server side application in GPL. Now this application serves HTML and not an executable which is directly executed on your machine. That means that another guy could take the GPL code, adapt it and does not necessarily need to publish it. Ie. he can create the identical service using your software without violating the GPL. (Although THEN he cannot publish the software itself i.e. selling) Not so with the AGPL. This hole in the GPL is often

If I use GPL software in my internal/closed source app do I have to make the source publicly available? say on the Internet? This question is specifically addressed in the GPL FAQ , and it says you're allowed to use GPLed software inside a company without legally distributing it. You have no obligation to release either source or binary outside the company. You're talking about what Richard Stallman (the person behind the Gnu movement) calls "private software". For private software, any license that allows you to use the code works, because you're not distributing it. Both the Free Software

There is any way to submit to the App Store an Qt Quick Controls application under LGPLv3 license without violating App Store rules? What i want to do is to deploy my app on iOS store using a dynamically linked version of the Qt libraries. I tried to find an answer in every forum but seems very difficult. Any suggestion is very appreciated. Thanks in advance. App Store does not care which license you use. It is the users of your application and the Library authors who care. The main point of the LGPLv3 license is that the end users must have the possibility to replace the library with their

My company is looking to start distributing some software we developed and would like to be able to let people try the software out before buying. We'd also like to make sure it can't be copied and distributed to our customers' customers. One model we've seen is tying a license to a MAC address so the software will only work on one machine. What I'm wondering is, what's a good way to generate a license key with different information embedded in it such as license expiration date, MAC address, and different software restrictions? I'd suggest you take the pieces of information you want in the

When I created a GitHub project I chose None. How can I now add a GPL license to my already added project? durgaselvan swaminathan Go to your repository Add a new file by clicking the blue plus icon Type the file name as License.txt or License.md so license picker will show up..then you can choose the type of license In your repository, click 'Create new file' 2. a) Type 'LICENSE', 'LICENSE.md' or 'LICENSE.txt' as the new file's file name. b) The 'Want to use a new template?' dialog will appear. Choose your preferred license. The accepted answer is almost there, but confused me, because it

I have developed a small application that I would like to try and sell but I am unfamiliar with how best to go about this. How would I go about locking the program down for trial use1. How would I go about dealing with accepting payments? Bearing in mind that I am a one man band with not a lot of money, I was hoping for a solution that would be free or a low cost, effective, secure and simple to implement and maintain. This is not something that I have a lot of experience with as I have typically developed for the public sector where they buy a solution as a whoel and we have never licensed it

There are a lot of questions relating to license keys asked on Stack Overflow. But they don't answer this question. Can anyone provide a simple license key algorithm that is technology independent and doesn't required a diploma in mathematics to understand? The license key algorithm is similar to public key encryption. I just need something simple that can be implemented in any platform .NET/Java and uses simple data like characters. Answers written as Pseudo code are perfect. So if a person presents a string, a complementary string can be generated that is the authorisation code. Below is a

The MIT license is GPL-compatible. Is the GPL license MIT-compatible? i.e. I can include MIT-licensed code in a GPL-licensed product, but can I include GPL-licensed code in a MIT-licensed product? It seems to me that the chief difference between the MIT license and GPL is that the MIT doesn't require modifications be open sourced whereas the GPL does. Is that correct? Is the GPL is more restrictive than the MIT license? It seems to me that the chief difference between the MIT license and GPL is that the MIT doesn't require modifications be open sourced whereas the GPL does. True - in general.