Questions tagged [github]
GitHub is a web-based Git repository hosting service, which offers free accounts for FLOSS software projects. Use this tag for questions about how working with GitHub affects open source projects.
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Putting a project's BSD code on GitHub and modifying it
There's a project I'd like to work on and change. It's released under the two-clause BSD license. But the code is only distributed in the zip files you get along with precompiled executables. I assume ...
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How to verify if git repository transfer is legitimate and the account hasn't been compromised? [closed]
(This question was closed at stack- overflow, superuser and web application. Now i got sent here.) The repository league/iso3166 changed the source from https://github.com/thephpleague/iso3166.git to ...
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Is it allowed to use web APIs exposed in open-source code?
I often find web projects on GitHub where the author has included their private web API in the code. Is it reasonable to use the author's publicly available web API from the perspective of community ...
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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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Are GitHub Actions open source?
So far from what i have seen: all Actions are using the MIT LICENSE, which allows to change and spread the code when continueing to use that licesene. GitHub Actions also have to be kept on a public ...
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How do I release code written for a company to the public?
I'm working on a Unity project for a company and, while doing so, I wrote some code that I think would be cool to have it on the internet, free to use. But I never released something that is owned by ...
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Maintaining a parallel fork of a project that contains the original authors' company name
I have been working on my own changes to a complicated academic/scientific project whose name contains their organization (university) name that I am not part of, for example, if their organization ...
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Which Free-software license should I use in a Unity project located on a public Github repository?
I have a Unity project in a public repository (https://github.com/AdrianXuizGarcia/VirManDC), and I want to make it open source. Im not sure which license should I use... All code and assets are made ...
