Questions tagged [relicensing]
For questions about changing the license of a work which has already been published under a different license (or published under all-rights-reserved copyright)
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Counting lines of code from contributors for copyrightability
The GNU project states that if a person contributes less than 15 lines of code to a project, their contributions are not "legally significant for copyright purposes". Say there is a Web app ...
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4 answers
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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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1 answer
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Potential Syscall Note Loophole?
Linux has a syscall note which says This exception is used together with one of the above SPDX-Licenses to mark user space API (uapi) header files so they can be included into non GPL compliant user ...
5 votes
3 answers
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Am I allowed to link code licensed under GPL to proprietary libraries?
I believe it is fairly well understood that you cannot link proprietary code to code licensed under the GPL because you're creating a derivative work and have to license it all under the GPL. ...
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1 answer
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Splitting LGPL License into certain folders/files
So my project tree is Root: Client Java Server C LICENCE README.md and I licensed it under LGPL v2.1, so my question is, Is it possible to put the LICENCE inside Server/C and inside Client/Java (...
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AGPLv3 license notice adding to each file
So I have added code licensed under AGPLv3 license to my own project. Licensed my own project under AGPLv3 and noticed that there are no code file with license notice included only AGPLv3 license file....
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Is the EUPL circumventable?
The EUPL in its §1 states that "to distribute" includes making available, online or offline, copies of the Work or providing access to its essential functionalities at the disposal of any ...
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1 answer
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PySimpleGUI, until now, has been distributed under the GPLV3, but just became a subscription model. How does that work?
PySimpleGUI, a GUI framework for Python, has previously been published under the LGPLv3. They just announced that they are changing to a subscription model with PysimpleGUI 5, and that previous ...
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