Unanswered Questions
105 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Would it be legal to avoid Unity (Game Engine) licensing by having the end-user build the project
Is it legal (assuming US) if instead of paying for a proprietary software and accepting their terms and conditions for distribution, to require the user to own this proprietary software and use it as ...
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Can I distribute the Google TTS Engine with offline data on my device?
My company would like to distribute devices containing preinstalled Google Text-to-Speech (TTS) engine, together with some downloaded offline voice data.
Can we do this without the need to acquire ...
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Can I resell diesel to a trucking company's fleet during a price hike?
Say I have a container of diesel which I purchased at a low rate and got a discount for a bulk purchase. Can I resell it to a trucking company's fleet of truckers at a competitive rate in a high-price ...
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Storing Google Maps Geocoding Data: Developer Site Tutorial Contradicts Terms of Service?
IANAL, but according to the Google Maps API Terms of Service, it appears as though one is not allowed to store geocoding results in a database:
10.1.3 Restrictions against Copying or Data Export.
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Military Clause of the Hippocratic Software License
The Hippocratic license is a software license that provides a list of ethical standards for the licensee. I am puzzled about the phrasing of the "military activities" clause.
This section ...
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Copyright status of arrangements produced for purpose of producing compulsory-licensed recordings
If someone wants to produce a musical recording under a compulsory mechanical license, using instrumentation other than that for which the piece was originally composed, it will often be necessary to ...
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Does watching YouTube's videos at work violate YouTube's Terms of Service
Let us suppose that I am a programmer at a software company. Furthermore, let us suppose that I am learning a programming language that the company is using. Do I violate YouTube's Terms of Service if ...
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Carelessly used Visual Studio Preview to develop an app that I'd like to release; what are my options?
A game. It started as an academic project, though I've always intended to release it (for free) at some point.
I checked the licence terms of Visual Studio 2017 Community. Happy, happy, joy joy:
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License for an Internet radio with User feedback
I'd like to start an internet radio station app. The station will collect feedback, like thumbs-up and thumbs-down, from listeners in order to select the best songs to play next. The algorithm will be ...
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Does a merger clause nullify implied terms?
The SE legal link says that using SE constitutes an agreement to certain terms. Section 3 on subscriber content states that "all Subscriber Content that You contribute to the Network is perpetually ...
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Respecting MIT license in JavaScript files
In my website I am using some JavaScript libraries, released under the MIT license.
One of them is:
https://github.com/olado/doT
Now, the MIT license states:
The above copyright notice and this ...
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Ingesting source files from other open source project into mine
I am publishing an open-source code project under the MIT-style license. I have the full notice in the LICENSE file of the source repository.
I want to take a whole file from another open-source ...
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Google Maps Licensing
I had a question regarding the ToS of Google Maps/Earth, it can be found here: https://developers.google.com/maps/terms
Section 9.1.1a states that:
(a) Free Access (No Fees). Your Maps API ...
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Have there been any notable instances of IP core piracy?
In the area of semiconductor design, it is common to use components fulfilling a particular purpose supplied and licensed by third parties; those are commonly referred to as IP cores.
An obvious ...
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Android developers must be company officers?
The license agreement for Android SDK and Android Studio contains the following clause:
2.4 If you are agreeing to be bound by the License Agreement on behalf of your employer or other entity, you ...
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