licensing

This question already has an answer here: Is there really any way to uniquely identify any computer at all 4 answers I am creating a license that is specific to a machine. The license is based on the following items: MAC Address CPU Serial Number Computer Volume Serial Number of drive0 I am assuming that if 2 of the 3 match, then my license is valid. So, the can get a new network card, and the license is still valid, etc. Is this a good approach or am I going to have issues with this not matching or changing regularly? I'm trying to get a unique identifier for the computer so that I can

Possible Duplicate: Using LGPL library in a commercial Java application Hello guys! There is a project under the GNU Lesser GPL license. I want to use this project in my application. Can I sell my application using this license? In a nutshell, the idea of LGPL'd projects (usually libraries) is that you are free to use them as you wish in your own application, be it open or closed source, free or proprietary - as long as you publish the source code of the LGPL'd part (if you modify the LGPL'd part, you must publish the modified sources, under LGPL). Additionally, the libraries must be linked

I'm a bit of a NuGet newbie and have come from the Maven world. Recently I've been tasked with updating the third party licence information for our projects. Working with the Maven projects I've been able to use the license:download-licenses plugin to get the licence information. What I'm wondering is if there is a way to get this information using Nuget? Preferably by using the command line interface so I can automate it at a CI build level. To remove it from the large manual pre build step. EDIT: Since I wasn't able to find any utilities to do this I put together the LegSec command line

It occured to me that the MySQL Connectors(Java and .NET) are GPL licensed. Does that mean vendors(not developing for inhouse apps) will have to purcase a commercial license for proprietary software talking to a MySQL database through these connectors If you are linking to the MySQL connectors in your application then yes - your application is considered to be "work based on that Program" as per the GPL. You have 2 options: License your application under a GPL compatible license. Become a MySQL Ready Partner (free) and get one of your applications MySQL approved. This grants you access to the

We are currently using MySQL for a product we are building, and are keen to move to PostgreSQL as soon as possible, primarily for licensing reasons. Has anyone else done such a move? Our database is the lifeblood of the application and will eventually be storing TBs of data, so I'm keen to hear about experiences of performance improvements/losses, major hurdles in converting SQL and stored procedures, etc. Edit: Just to clarify to those who have asked why we don't like MySQL's licensing. We are developing a commercial product which (currently) depends on MySQL as a database back-end. Their

Could you please suggest which are the well-known "open source" licenses allowing me to use libraries under these licenses in proprietary webservice (accessible in Internet to the public), which I am not going to make opensource. I am ok to state somewhere that I am using the library, and I am ok with sharing the changes I make in the library. I guess GPL ones does not work here, as I am not going to release whole product as GPL, what are other options? That's what I've found about Meebo & libpurple: I have a licensing question. Do you guys feel that Meebo's use of libpurple is acceptable

I have a fairly good understanding of individual OSS licenses, but I always have trouble when I want to use code under different licenses. BSD vs. Ms-PL, Apache 2 vs. GPLv3 etc. Is there some sort of "mating chart" that lists which licenses are compatible with which ones? Brian Campbell The Free Software Foundation maintains a list of licenses , categorized as GPL compatible, GPL incompatible, and non-free. This can help answer the most common question, which is whether a license is GPL compatible. Since there aren't many other free software licenses which require that the entire derived work