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How to avoid geopolitical conflict in FOSS software project?
The current US administration is anything but sane, and its political stability is in my opinion deteriorating. It implements numerous export restrictions that hampers industry supply chain globally. ...
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What percentage of all software is open-source?
What percentage of all software is open-source vs. proprietary? Has anyone tried to estimate this?
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"To provide all the source necessary to build the software, including supporting libraries"
In A Quick Guide to GPLv3 by Brett Smith, he says:
Both versions of the GPL require you to provide all the source
necessary to build the software, including supporting libraries,
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Can I update the wording in a BSD license?
I translated code from MATLAB to Python and the original has this license:
All rights reserved.
Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided ...
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Can I request my school to provide source to modified version of a software licensed under GNU GPLv3
My school has a mail client which is licensed under GNU GPLv3, which is open to people in the school to use. The GPL FAQs has a section answering my question, but it mentions that I can request only ...
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Under what license may I use screenshots and videos of the gameplay of Minetest (Luanti)?
I'm planning to create a blog where I would publish screenshots I've made while playing Minetest (Luanti). I'm considering making videos, too. I would like to know whether I can legally do it at all, ...
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Is this license "viral"?
The background to this question is that I'm building a physics library in C++, and I'm looking for code to implement some of my functionalities. I found this program (linked in full here https://www....
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Can an AGPLv3 program be included in a CapacitorJS app that has AdMob ads?
I am writing a JavaScript game that I would like to license under AGPLv3. It should mainly be a web game but I am also planning to distribute it on F-Droid using CapacitorJS.
For Google Play I was ...
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Can you make a derivative work of the AGPLv3?
The GPL version 3 begins with:
Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this license document, but changing it is not allowed.
The GPL FAQ says:
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LLM-generated code in Open Source projects [duplicate]
Is it legal to use code generated by large language models, such as ChatGPT or Gemini, in open-source projects under the most popular open-source licenses? On the one hand, I know of a case where a ...
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Charging for the use of open source software
I'm building a system that includes a GPLv3-licensed software (made up of multiple open source programs which are configured to work together) and some modules that I wrote myself from scratch which ...
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Will web-link deletion be considered modification?
In this question a conclusion was made that any hyperlink deletion from documentation will be considered "change" under Creative Commons terms.
This led me to another question. I grab a ...
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Sisvel and the patent grant of VP8/VP9
Sorry if this in the wrong place, I'm not certain if this question belongs here on Open Source StackExchange, on Patents StackExchange, or on Law StackExchange.
The documentation for the WebM project ...
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Deleting hyperlinks in Creative Commons documentation
There is a package - the license.md file says that all the documentation in the "doc" directory of that package is licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
Everything outside that directory is ...
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How to protect author IP for content on a website built under Apache 2.0 license
I have a website that hosts original written content and images from a range of authors. The website itself is open-sourced under the Apache 2.0 license. All the content files are stored in the open-...
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