Questions tagged [contributor]
For questions about contributors, and their resources and conditions. Use the collaboration tag if your question is specific to interaction between contributors.
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MIT License: Does the claim of copyright extend to derivatives?
The MIT license includes, among other text: Copyright <YEAR> <COPYRIGHT HOLDER> Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and ...
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Is it legal to delete an MIT-licensed github repository which was contributed to and then distribute this code as commercial?
Long story short, a company used to have an open source and MIT licensed wordpress plugin (a gateway payment processor for woocommerce) published on github. I have submitted contributions to it, which ...
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11 votes
2 answers
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Implicit licensing when contributing to an open source project
Imagine I fork a MIT licensed project on GitHub, make some changes and submit a Pull Request (PR). I own the copyright of my changes. The PR is accepted. A few years later, someone uses the software ...
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6 votes
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Apache 2.0 and patent grant to the code not related to the contribution
Imagine, a company, contributes to a huge Apache 2.0 project. The company owns a patent. The project is huge, and there's a small fragment of its code which infringes on the patent. The company ...
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3 answers
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How should I store contributor info ethically and practically?
Background I've started a FLOSS project and people are interested in helping out in different ways. I'm considering how to store information about these contributors Information like for example: ...
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3 votes
1 answer
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License to accept contributions without losing the rights on the application
English is not my native language so all the subtleties of licensing law are lost on me. I can't find what I'm looking for. The initial problem: I have created an association and its website which ...
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0 votes
1 answer
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How to open source a project developed at several companies by a single author
I've been the only author (or at least the author of 99.9% of code) on a project that initially started as a masters research project at a research organisation. After completing my studies I was ...
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4 votes
1 answer
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How do I add contributors to the attribution/ownership part of the CC BY-SA 4.0 licensing statement of my work?
The manuscript I will be working on is an original work that I am currently starting by myself. I am writing the work in LaTex, and the manuscript will have code blocks included within the text. I ...
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