Questions tagged [free-software]
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Strategy for offering a library both a single-header and as a header + compiled implementation
I am maintaining a FOSS library which, for the sake of discussion, consists of a small .h file and a larger .c file (plus build-related files, see below) I've been requested to offer this library as a ...
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Data lake architecture / design when have only few TB of data, but want to use certain Hadoop-like components (sqoop, data cataloging, and gov)?
Currently have situation between having not much data (mid single-digit to low double-digit TBs (not per data set mind you, but the average total amount)), but desiring tools similar to those that ...
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Microsoft or Open Source? [closed]
Why do some companies prefer private Microsoft solutions when in the majority of cases there are open source solutions or free software for them? What does Microsoft offer that the open sourece or ...
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Is wrapping a command-line tool (wget, curl) a "good" practice?
I have a background in .NET, specifically in C# WPF and ASP.Net, but now I am going to use more golang and C. Consider the following situation as an example: The software I should program should ...
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Is it actually possible (practically) to sell Open Source software? [duplicate]
Open source software can be used for commercial purposes. It is said that You can even sell Open Source software. How does this work? If I sell my open-source product (copyleft or permissive), ...
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How and when had the CC BY license become GNU GPL-compatible?
I believed that Creative Commons Attribution License, even being non-copyleft one, was always and still is incompatible with GNU GPL because of multiple minor issues; which, however, were gradually ...
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Using GPL’d software in a proprietary web application
We are developing website that we charge money from members to join it as membership annual cost, so, we decided to put a plan for the second stage so we are choosing now the load balancer that we ...
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Editing Copyright line in Apache2 license.txt
I wish to publish my program under Apache2 license. I have added the "APPENDIX" part of the license text to the top portion of my source.txt file and edited the copyright year and name. But when ...
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