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I have released works with MIT licence, others with CC BY-SA, etc. But for a specific work, I'd like to share it with Creative Commons BY-SA-NC, i.e. I don't want people who will modify/fork it to ...
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I've licensed a piece of software under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International Public License, but I may not want to allow others to use it for commercial uses in the future, so ...
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I will host a blog using Github Pages, is it possible to add a secondary license in the assets folder so if people fork the project they would have to provide their own assets and not use the defaults ...
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These articles explains how to give credit for CC-licensed work, but I can't information on where to give credit. Suppose I want to use an icon on my commercial website -- I can't exactly credit the ...
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I'm building my first app and have reached a point where I'm considering switching to a MySQL database. However, I noticed the GPL on the Community version of MySQL. So I did some prowling and noticed ...
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In the program I'm making I have a pixtureBox (.NET) that is used to show related images. I found images after searching online, and some are CC BY-SA 2.0, 3.0, 4.0, and some belong to the public ...
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The original library has this statement in its readme, with a link to CC0 1.0. To the extent possible by law, [redacted] Company, LLC has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to ...
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We have an word game commercial mobile application for which we want to use dictionaries for various languages. Most of them have GPLv3 or CC-NC3 licenses. We modify the dictionaries: basically, we ...
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I'm not talking about distributing any GPL software. I'm talking about using the output of a GNU GPL software in commercial purposes. For example: I use kdenlive for my video editing and inserting ...
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I am trying to find a music track for my Android game. It's a free game but includes ads. I found a good music on this site. As per the FAQs and the licensing terms (Creative Commons License ...
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I'm planning to open source an Android app that I developed against the API of a (small regional) social network. This app is the 'official' version for the website and thus allowed to use the logo ...
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I'm trying to figure out if I can use code licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 (CC-BY-NC 3.0) in a Wordpress plugin (which must be released under GPL). I think the answer is ...
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Let's say I have a blog available under one of the Creative Commons licences. Such type of licence would be displayed at the bottom of each page with a link to the actual licence, etc.. However, ...
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Last year, I created a derived work from published source code that was distributed unlicensed on a blog. Recently, I went back to the blog and noticed it was now licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0. Is my ...
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Lets say there is a resource published under the CC BY-NC license that is not itself in any way related to software, but rather a database of sorts for example. As I understand, this places ...
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I believed that Creative Commons Attribution License, even being non-copyleft one, was always and still is incompatible with GNU GPL because of multiple minor issues; which, however, were gradually ...
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I have access to a database which data is released under Creative Commons Attribution v3.0 I understand that using this database/data requires me to give credits on information origin in different ...
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Some of the CC licenses define ShareAlike term: ShareAlike — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. ...
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Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer, and I don't expect anyone answering this question to also be, and I will not take the answer as legal advice. Starting from a piece of software (in this case, a game ...
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I think this question is specific to indie developers be concerned about. Think about it as a "license clarification" or a "license practical use case". I need to know how must be my project basic ...
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I want to release all my future FOSS projects under a "public domain" license such as CC0. This is in order to avoid the requirement for attribution present in most FOSS licenses, mainly when the code ...
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I'm currently making a game and want to use some textfiles (lists of names) that are covered under the GNU General Public License (or the Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License). Do I have to ...
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I have content that is CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 (see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/), can software that uses it still be produced commercially and just let the user download the content ...
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I am developing an open-source Java desktop application and I would like to use some icons in the GUI to indicate various settings, external links, etc. I found a set of free icons that are published ...
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When a software project wants to use Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License that denies making derivatives, does it conflict GitHub terms of service clause F.1 that ...
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After doing a bit of research about licensing my free software, I reached this: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ how do I include it ...
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I have a question as to the proper best practices revolving forking code. I've taken code base licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 and brought significant ...
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For example, I've GPL software. I'm the author of this GPL software. This GPL software has, between its code, Doxygen comments. These Doxygen comments are written to generate a CC-BY-SA html page, in ...
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For example if I have code that contains parts of code rewritten from code found here or on Stack Overflow or other Creative-Commons licensed code, can my final code be licensed with an Apache License?...
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I'm working on a project that uses some icons that are under a Creative Commons license (ND) that forbids modification of the picture. What can I do with this icons as a programmer? Can I modify ...
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I'm in the process of making a fork of GNU coreutils with a range of modifications. I'd like to release the result as an open-source project, but I'm not so much of a fan of GNU GPL as a license. Is ...
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There is a wordpress theme I am modifying to create my own derived work. This original wordpress theme has the GPLv2 licence in it's root directory, so I assume that the entire theme is GPL code. ...
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if a JQuery plugin is released under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license, can it be used as part of a closed source commercial web application which is not redistributed, just accessible on the web?
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Well, I am not sure about is this is the right StackExchange site to ask this, but since can accept question about Software law, i think it's almost on topic here. If I use creative commons music for ...
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If I want to bundle fonts and images with an application released under the GPL, are there specific requirements for the license of these assets?
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