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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Can a CLA allow selling exceptions without allowing relicensing to no longer be FOSS?
Selling exceptions to FOSS licenses (e.g., like Qt) is okay, but changing a project's license from a FOSS one to a proprietary one (e.g., like Redis, MongoDB, and HashiCorp) is bad. Given a project ...
2 votes
1 answer
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AGPL/Commercial software
I'm a developer and I need to download and use a nuget package for an internal app in our company. The license for this nuget package says: "dual licensed as AGPL/Commercial software". So ...
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5 votes
2 answers
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Different OSS license for LaTeX project source and code listings
I am currently writing a technical document with various code listings and diagrams. I would like to release the actual text under the GNU-FDL license, while keeping the code listings under GNU-GPL V3....
1 vote
1 answer
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License R code when using R packages with different license types
I am navigating licensing, and this is very confusing. I produced a lot of R code to analyze data for a research article that will be published on a peer-reviewed journal. Reading here License for R ...
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6 votes
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Dynamically Linking a Proprietary Module to a GPL-Covered Library (C/C++)
Context Suppose I have two projects called: Foo Bar Goal: The Foo compiles to some sort of dynamic linking library such as a windows .dll and links to project Bar dynamically. And some of the ...
2 votes
1 answer
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Using a library with triple-license from a private application
We are analyzing the possibility of using JRuby library for some maintenance tasks in a private closed-source application that we are selling to a customer. According to the license information on ...
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If code is published in two places with different licenses and don't know which is the original
If some code is published in two different places by different people, one under the Apache license and one under no license, and I have no way to know which one is the original author (one of them ...
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7 votes
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Can a company offering a dual-license AGPL/paid commercial product require commercial users to purchase a commercial license?
When I was working through a problem I was having with MinIO, I noticed that in a bug report on Github, one of the project owners made this comment to a bug reporter: Also remember if you are using ...
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