Questions tagged [multi-licensing]

Works can be released under two (or more) licenses, which may or may not be compatible, giving recipients the choice of which terms they will abide by

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Suitable license for open-source game with proprietary content

I am developing a 2D sidescroller game for mobile platforms and am trying to figure out the best licensing option for this situation: My desire is to make the game's source code open-source, but the content (maps, graphics, etc..) proprietary. The…
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Dual Licensing - AFL/GPL

I would like to use a library that is dual licensed: library is licensed to you under your choice of the Academic Free License version 2.1, or the GNU General Public License version 2 (or, at your option any later version). My understanding is that…
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Using partially open source program/s and non open source programs, together in a project to be commercial?

In my case I'd like to use an open-source music program to make some music for an android app. When I later want to publish this app on the app store, this does mean I cannot use a normal copyright license right? I've understood that I cannot…
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Use of CC0 licensed code which used CPOL licensed code

I want to use for the creation of an application that I plan to add to Google play (free to use) some code that is licensed under a CC0 license (https://github.com/tedbarnett/read-exif-in-unity). However this code use the work from an other licensed…
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Can you license the same software with different licenses for different industries?

If I have software that I want a non-profit or non-commercial entity to use, improve, etc. and so on, and I want them to have it open source, say GPL3, but I don't want commercial entities to be able to get it and sell it (maybe MIT non-Commercial)…
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How does firefox use proprietory fonts?

Visit about:preferences on firefox and search fonts.Almost every font that is listed is proprietory.How does firefox use them though they are open source?