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What counts as disclosing source for software licenses? [closed]
MPL v2, GPL v3 and other licenses alike require giving users access to source code.
For desktop applications - does access have to be provided through the user interface (GUI)? Or can it just be ...
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How to prove that given binary files are compiled from provided source code?
Let's assume I want to use an open-source software, the developer says that the software is open-source and provides the source code.
Now my question is, how can I be 100% sure that the given binary ...
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Can a service provider proof it is running a particular open source product? [closed]
Part of our project includes an open source GO server that we have open sourced for transparency. How can we prove that we havent made any alterations to the code before we deployed it?
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How can I figure out where the code starts for a complex software project? [duplicate]
Say I want to (try to) read through and understand a fairly complex piece of code (for example the free software Coreboot firmware code, which can be found here). How can I figure out where the code ...
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How to find out the source code of the earliest release/version?
Reading source code of the early release/version is very helpful for beginner to digest complex project. There is less line of code and learner can see the progression of the project.
However, ...
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Distributing GPL-ed software with lost source code
Thought experiment.
Tom is a software developer. He releases his relatively simple software under GPL. Jerry forks his source code and creates a world savior software with months or years of hard ...
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Do I update the copyright header when i modify the source?
Suppose I were to modify a said piece of code and put it back on github, would I have to update the license header.
This is the code(Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0): https://github....
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Licensing - Restrictive Open Source License OR Custom License [closed]
I have some source code I want to release but I'm unsure of the best license to put on it. From my research such licenses as MIT and GNU are horrible as they offer little to no protection towards ...
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Should my program be flawless at release [duplicate]
I'm building a big, very complex piece of open-source software, and it's killing me trying to make what I have as "clean" as it needs to be.
What I want to know is: If there is an undetected flaw in ...
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Why aren't there code overviews for open-source projects? [closed]
There are very complex open source projects out there, and to some of them I think I could make some contributions, and I wish I could, but the barrier to entry is too high for a single reason: for ...
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Do I have to make source code open, if I use GPLv2 licensed software to derive data
I'm working on a calendar project, on my own. In this project I've to use Swiss Ephemeris. It is licensed under GPLv2 and commercial. With commercial version of license, developers entitled to ...
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GPL- How much source must be released?
Suppose I have a GPL v2-licensed library that is of interest to a closed-source project (e.g. Wolfram Alpha).
If some of my code were used in Wolfram Alpha, or a product that interfaces with Wolfram ...
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File with Apache 2.0 and my modifications
I read the original text of Apache License, Version 2.0 and the explanation in plain English.
OK, I copy a class distributed by The Best Company in the World, their license, and modify the code a bit....
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What is a good license for community submissions to commercial partially closed source software?
I am maintaining a small code base that I am considering selling– but I want to allow developers that use it to submit code for addition to the trunk. This way they can extend the framework and the ...
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In need of a divide and conquer approach for re-writing small open-source utilities [duplicate]
Preamble (Skip if you don't like to read)
I've been learning C/C++ in school for a year now and all the assignments in the book, after reading through the chapters, were not too difficult to ...
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