What is the significance of each paragraph of the GPL “copying permission statement”?
Part of the FSF’s instructions for placing a program under the GPL is including the following “copying permission statement” at the top of your file, under the copyright notice:
How to manage a copyright notice in an open source project?
I’m working on, and adding to, a GitHub-hosted project that includes this LICENCE.md (apparently the MIT licence verbatim):
Does custom created code for a client imply copyright ownership? [closed]
Closed 9 years ago.
How to copyright and license individual code files
I have a habit of writing small, reusable components in my spare time. I reuse these components with my clients’ code bases. It occurs to me there’s a potential issue that using identical code for multiple clients may bite me back in the future. I don’t care who uses the code. I just don’t want a situation where one company tries to sue another for copyright infringement due to my actions.
Licensing a project
Can someone clarify the following things for me ?
Can graphics in the public domain be used in commercial software?
For example: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Epithalamus.png
Publish a software with copyright and license
I just read some artical about publishing software and I am personally developing some random metero application at the moment.
Can I distribute a software with the following permission notice
I’ve recently written a piece of software (without any other contributors) for a company which I part own. I was wondering if I could distribute it with the following permission notice, which is a modified version of the MIT License. Are there any obvious risks if I do distribute with this licence and does it give me the right to reuse the code in other projects?
How do I properly credit authors of software released under the MIT license?
I have modified the source code of an MIT licensed project, and I have added new classes to it as well. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think that it is legal to add my copyright notice above the license and remove the other one. But how should I attribute the contribution of the previous authors? Should I use a separate file? There are also some HTML files with no license or copyright notice in them which I also modified. Do I have to handle them differently?
What if I forgot to include someone elses copyright info in old commit?
Assume I have a public source code repository. Am I violating copyright laws if there’s any old commit where I have not yet added all copyright info for other people’s open source code?