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Is discouragement of buying paid copies a violation of open source?
CrDroid is an AOSP custom ROM which claims to be open source, but I found this on their website: It has come to our notice that certain individual is attempting to profit from our open source work by ...
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Need Help Regarding Licensing for Samsung Kernel Sources
I'm planning to push Samsung Kernel Source to GitHub and need some guidance on the appropriate licensing. Specifically, I'm wondering: What license should I use for the Samsung Kernel Source? Can I ...
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Gimp and Inkscape on Android: licensing (GPL?)
I have found the following apps on the Google Play store. They are traditional Linux apps for drawing, that are running on Android (with some modification to the source code, I believe). I would like ...
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Publishing an application on play store....licenses and royalties doubts
I've built an Android application in Kotlin, and it uses these libraries : ... implementation "androidx.camera:camera-core:${camerax_version}" implementation "androidx.camera:...
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Reuse of source code having BSD License in Android App
I have successfully developed an Android App in Android Studio but the final thing which is disturbing me is that, my app contains code from a GitHub repository that has BSD license as given below: ...
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Is it legally required to name used libraries under Apache 2.0 when publishing an Android app?
My Android app contains many libraries licensed under Apache 2.0. According to my understanding, when publishing the app, it is enough to add the following sentence in the app's description: "...
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How to license a software library using the Apache license?
I made an android library and published it on GitHub as an open source library. Now I want to add the Apache license to it, but I don't know how to apply for the license. How can I get the Apache ...
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Which license is final for google's android play-services? ASL2.0 or Android SDK?
My android application has some com.google.android.gms.play-services-* libraries as dependencies. Let's take play-services-ads-19.7.0 as an example. Google's maven page states, that license of that ...
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