Questions tagged [commercial]
Commercial activity is anything to make money. This tag is for questions about making money with Open Source / Free Software, or other interaction between open projects and commercial activity. Warning: Open Source / Free Software can be commercial as well. Do not use this tag to mean not-open-source. Use the [proprietary] or [closed-source] tags instead.
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Can an AGPLv3 program be included in a CapacitorJS app that has AdMob ads?
I am writing a JavaScript game that I would like to license under AGPLv3. It should mainly be a web game but I am also planning to distribute it on F-Droid using CapacitorJS. For Google Play I was ...
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Using multi-licensed code as a library in my proprietary software
I want to use the dual-licensed git-filter-repo as a library in my proprietary and commercial application, by this I mean: I want to sell the application as a binary, executable or package but not ...
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MPL for core C++ and MIT for python interface and others: is this sound?
I'm developing a high-performance algorithm library for robotics applications. The implementation consists of C++ core algorithms with Python bindings and YAML configuration support. My objective is ...
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What was Winning Strategies, Inc.?
Core libraries on many Linux and BSD based systems include copyright notices similar to this: Copyright (c) 1993 Winning Strategies, Inc. All rights reserved. Redistribution and use in source and ...
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Can a software vendor prohibit use of their open source / community edition software (GPLv3) after subscribing to their Enterprise license?
A software vendor who offers a product under both an open source (under GPLv3) license as well as an Enterprise license has the following terms in their Enterprise agreement: Subscriber may not, and ...
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Does Licensing open-source prevent me from selling the product?
In the last question I asked, I found out that open-source licenses are always letting people use your code/product commercially. This means that they can technically sell the product. Does this mean ...
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How to fairly distribute a sum of money among the most relevant FLOSS projects to a codebase?
I'm facing a dilemma. As a independent software developer and vendor, I code and sell the product of my work making some profit out of it. It's not much, it won't make me rich, but it's enough to make ...
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How do I properly put third-party dependencies under MIT on my copyright notice for a published MacOS app on the App Store?
If IconCast is the name of a close-sourced app I'm publishing that makes money, and AppIconSetGen, an open source library under the MIT license made by someone else that I made some changes to (which ...
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