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Is any one of these the right way to write a license for your opensource project forked and modified from an existing one with different authors?
I've used parts of source from an existing Java library project with what appears to be a 3-clause BSD license.
I've made significant changes to the library which makes it possible to use it in a new ...
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Forking BSD-Project and changing license [duplicate]
Is it possible to fork a project (which I don't own) and change the license from BSD to for example LGPL / GPL / AGPL?
I read it would be possible to change fork's license to something compatible to ...
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Why do some embedded projects shun cross-compiling?
As I've been getting into embedded systems I've noticed that some projects (Arch Arm and OpenBSD for example) frown upon cross compiling. What is the reasoning for this? Is a cross-compiled binary ...
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Why do I have to keep my open source software license in the root?
Nearly all open source software licenses require (or at least lawyers generally suggest they require) users to include the full license in the root of the project that they are protecting.
One lawyer ...
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Origin of the name “OpenServer” for the SCO Unix operating system
I was looking over the evolutionary history of Unix and Unix-like systems on Wikipedia and one operating system name stood out to me: OpenServer.
Judging from the image, SCO's OpenServer is ...
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How does a developer set up an environment to hack on an OS like Linux, Plan9 or BSD?
I've always found it daunting and confusing how an OS hacker sets up their workflow. As a web-developer I find it easy to set up a workflow because web-sites run on servers and as such my OS is never ...
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Do LAMP/Java-based software development teams have SOE's?
As a developer on the Windows/.NET stack, it's pretty normal for the company-supplied machine to come with Windows (usually an ancient, archaic version like Windows XP) and a stack of software ...
