Questions about software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified.
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Creating reproducible builds to verify Free Software [on hold]
Free Software is about freedom and privacy, Open Source software is great but making that fully practical usually won't happen. Most Free Software developers publicize binaries that we can't verify ...
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Is this a typo in the Artistic License 2.0?
I'm not sure if this would fit better in StackExchange/English, but regardless, there is no practical use to the answer, other than to cure my curiosity.
Note this sentence at the end of the Artistic ...
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How important is to avoid name collisions between libraries belonging to different domains?
I have written a small open source Java library for facilitating conversions between different types of objects (in the style of Google's gson, but quite more general).
It seems to me that a nice ...
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Deferred Open Source licensing
Are there established models for releasing an initially proprietary piece of software under FLOSS conditions after a defined period or a certain point of time? The main problem here is that all ...
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How to maintain a forked git repo with feature branches that upstream won't pull?
So here's a typical workflow on Github...
Like some project -> fork it -> git clone https://github.com/you/someproject.
Open project. Like what you see, but make some changes.
Having been ...
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Can you use proprietary libraries in MPL 2.0 licensed source?
Is it legal to use a third party library in a software project that is itself licensed under MPL 2.0?
So some potential project hierarchies would look like this
Library Project [MPL 2.0] (Open ...
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Marking specific pieces of drastically changed open source code
I have taken a small chunk of open-source code, around a hundred lines, and found that for whatever reason, I have modified it so drastically that my end result has essentially no resemblance to the ...
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Can I use open source libraries in my project which is released into the public domain?
I am writing a Windows Phone application which I intend to release into the public domain (the source code and releated resources, that is). My application does, however, use a few third party open ...
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Is open source development considered “commercial use” of software?
The Software Setup:
I am currently planning on creating a new software product. I have never commercially launched an application, nor am I doing this for a company. It's more for fun than anything, ...
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Is such modification allowed by GPL? Which licences allow this which not?
Assume that I have library X which contains class A with method b and that library X is realeased under GPL licence.
public class A {
public void b() {
// this is an example of b method's ...
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Using jTransforms for a commercial (non-free) android application?
I am developing an application which is using JTransforms to compute FFT and InverseFFT.
I am planning to sell that application on Play Store.
The JTransforms Library is covered under MPL/LGPL/GPL ...
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How to do you judge the value of using TDD or plain unit testing in an Open Source project? Is there a good rule of thumb? [duplicate]
In my current OSS project, I knew literally nothing about what I was doing when I began.
I was integrating with a larger project as a plugin, and that in and of itself had a steep learning curve.
If ...
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Is it okay to check in changes to import statement on opensource projects on a commit? [duplicate]
There are some guidelines out there (eg scala guidelines) and I'm wondering if it's okay to do some tidying up when committing other changes or if the commits should be more focused and to the point?
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Who owns modifications to open-source software?
Suppose a piece of software is distributed under some permissive license, e.g. BSD. Now, I modify this software and want to distribute my derivative work. My questions:
Who is the owner of the ...
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Finding the right license for my open source
I'm about to create a new open-source project and I'm not sure about the licensing method I should choose.
Here is what I know:
The project will be built on the basis of an already existing open ...
