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Which is the correct licence?

So I found this very interesting library in Google Code site. It turns out it is advertised as “LGPL”, which is good enough for me. However, in the README file of the library the author contradicts himself saying it is not available for commercial purposes.

Software licensing particulars

I have spent a lot of time examining the various (major) software licenses and ultimately have decided upon using the MIT Licenses for my open source projects, and the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RSL) for my proprietary projects.

GPL – what is distribution?

An interesting point came up on another thread about alleged misappropriation of a GPL project. In this case the enterprise software was used by some large companies who essentially took the code, changed the name, removed the GPL notices and used the result.

To refund or not to refund this client? [closed]

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