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Questions tagged [license]

This tag is used for concerns about licenses to software and what rights one grants.

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What is the license of Mojo?

Suddenly, we are now hearing about the 'Mojo' language. Like Julia, it is claimed to favorably compare to languages such as C (open standard) and Python (compatible with GPL); Julia being licensed under MIT. But what's the mojo license? Shouldn't…
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Trying to understand an old custom license

I found this code that I want to use: https://github.com/ObjectivitySRC/PVGPlugins/blob/master/NonBSDPlugins/DataMineReader/dmfile.h The license is on top and states: If you do use this code please do two things: 1) Acknowledge my…
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What is the license of models built on pretrained embeddings?

I was trying to figure out this problem in the internet. What if I train embeddings on the wikipedia texts? And then use them in training of my model? For example, fastText embeddings are distributed like Wikipedia under…
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What is the legal status of a repository that deleted its license?

I created a fork of a repository that hadn't received a commit in ~4 years. Three weeks ago (and after a 7 year hiatus), the repository owner deleted the MIT license in the repository. The commits I made to that fork were made months before the…
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Commercial license required to build Python packages with Microsoft C++ build tools?

The developer life becomes incredibly complicated once you work in commercial companies. Recently, I ran into the problem that I wanted to install the Python packages turbodbc, sktime, and tslearn. All are speeded up by using C-functions under the…
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What to implement in my commercial website in order to legally use PrimeNG MIT license?

I'm trying to find some very specific Angular UI components that I can only find in PrimeNG. I never used it before, it looks simple enough to implement, the only problem that I'm having is that I tried to read the MIT license and I got…
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AppleJavaExtensions-1.4.jar is free or not for commercial use?

I know AppleJavaExtensions-1.4.jar is under Apple License. https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/samplecode/AppleJavaExtensions/Listings/README_txt.html I wonder that AppleJavaExtensions-1.4.jar is free or not when it is included in…
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What does the ICU License state about third party rights?

The license link. Can someone elaborate "NONINFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS"? What is being implied here? It's confusing to me. I will choose the answer with most votes.
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Different license for JSON files and images

I'm working on a web-app that has a pretty big .json database file baked into it with a lot of images associated with it. The database & it's images will be frequently updated alongside the main web-app itself. Can I apply a different license for…
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MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE 1.1: Do I have to update all my source code files in a proprietary software project if I include a lib with MPL v1.1?

I am planning to use Hunspell lib which is under MOZILLA PUBLIC LICENSE 1.1 for proprietary software. Here https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/MPL/1.1/ it says in 3.5. Required Notices: "You must duplicate the notice in Exhibit A in each file of the…
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Does a software license apply to a stripped version of the original binary?

If I create a binary that contains exactly the same class-, method- and field signatures as a proprietary application, but I've left everything else out - does the license of the original app still apply?
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License of a not anymore existing pip library

I think the question is language agnostic but we are doing an audit and there is a python library which doesn't specify license and it doesn't install anymore. > pip freeze | grep MakeJS MakeJS==0.0.3.3 so it's installed on production but when I…
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If I have many distributable packages in the same repository, do I need to include a LICENSE file with all of them?

I'm creating a project with Lerna, so there's multiple NPM packages in the same repository. Is it necessary for me to place a LICENSE file inside each NPM package, such that when the user downloads the package they can read the license, or is it…
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Is it free to use Node.js with addon?

OS: Windows I want to build an app for commercial usage which needs to call a library written in C. The only way (as far as I know) is writing a Node.js addon which needs Visual Studio Tools to build it. But the build tool is not free. Does it mean…
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How to license my game project's artwork and source code, and credit others' artwork, library?

I'm making a game and want to properly license it, but I don't know how handle these licenses. For example I license the source code under BSD-3.0 and the artwork under CC BY 4.0. This project depends on author A's library-X (licensed under Apache…
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