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Questions tagged [licensing]

THIS TAG IS ONLY FOR PROGRAMMING LICENSING SERVICES. Questions about using software licenses are off-topic, but may be asked at opensource.stackexchange.com or law.stackexchange.com

A license defines the terms under which the copyright owner permits others to use their work.

On-topic

  • programming licensing servers
  • programming licensing clients
  • implementing consumption of license keys

Off-topic

  • Any licensing question where you did not write the licensing system. In other words, using licenses for other company's software (i.e. a Microsoft Windows license)

  • Legal advice on usage of licenses. You may be able to get an answer to such questions at OpenSource.SE (for questions about open-source licenses) or Law.SE; but check their help pages for more detailed guidance about acceptable topics and what to include in your question when posting there.

Disclaimer

The answers are NO legal advice and there's NO warranty! For a legally valid advice consult a lawyer or another legal advice.

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Reset Windows Activation/Remove license key

I'm having a hard time finding and answer to this. If I had to hypotheitcally remove the Windows license key from a VM that's been specifically setup for a partner, and it needs to be removed before the VM is handed over, how would I go about doing…
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Open-source: licence header on each source file OR a single COPYING OR both?

Publishing an open-source project, is it enough to add a COPYING file to the package or do I need to copy and paste it on top of every project's source file? On famous public repositories like github or Google code I've seen different mixed…
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How to add copyright to Android-Studio?

The title says everything. If I want to add copyright comment in code files in Android Studio? I, of course, find the Copyright settings in Preference/Copyright, but I can't make it work... copyrights just don't appear when I create a new Java…
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maven report on licenses your project depends on

I've got a big multi-module project, and I'd like to generate a report that shows all the licenses of all the things the project depends on. I looked at tattletale, but it doesn't seem to do the trick. And I can easily find a plugin that will…
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Should I provide a LICENSE.txt or COPYING.txt file in my project?

Does it matter? Should I use one or the other? Or both, even? Can the license file be any name? (With any extension?) I'm sure there's a "best practices" guide that contains all this, but I'm not having any luck finding it.
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Can pip (or setuptools, distribute etc...) list the license used by each installed package?

I'm trying to audit a Python project with a large number of dependencies and while I can manually look up each project's homepage/license terms, it seems like most OSS packages should already contain the license name and version in their metadata.…
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Is it legal to using MySQL in commercial environment?

I won't release my software source code, and it will be a commercial application. Can I use the MySQL without paying any fee to MySQL? if it is illegal, any alternative database suggest?
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Implementing a 30 day time trial

Question for indie Mac developers out there: How do I implement a 30-day time trial in a non-evil fashion? Putting a counter in the prefs is not an option, since wiping prefs once a month is not a problem for an average user. Putting the counter in…
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How can I implement Google Play Licensing for an Android app?

I saw the stock Android-Developer licensing library instructions, but the overview seems to omit several key steps in the process and fails to fully explain how to get something working. Can someone provide an explicit set of operations that worked…
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Alternative to servicestack.redis

I did an package manager update-package command to update our project to the latest binaries. I almost published it because it passed all the tests until luckily I had found a problem that needed some more debugging. My mouth fell open when I…
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Visual Studio 2013 License Product Key

I installed Visual Studio 2013 Professional as a Trial version while waiting for my company to complete the license purchase. They completed the purchase of 4 licenses (64 bit), but were not given Product Keys. Instead, there is a particular .iso…
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Can I produce commercial code with Visual studio express editions?

Can I use Visual C# express to produce commercial applications? And are there any other licensing issues. Thank you
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What license should I choose from codeplex for my open source project?

What license should I pick on codeplex if I want an open source project? What are the pros and cons on all licenses?
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Looking for a license key algorithm

There are a lot of questions relating to license keys asked on Stack Overflow. But they don't answer this question. Can anyone provide a simple license key algorithm that is technology independent and doesn't required a diploma in mathematics to…
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Can I use Visual Studio 2012 Express Edition for commercial use?

I know this question has been asked before for earlier versions of Visual Studio Express (2010 and 2008) However I have not found a concrete answer for the same for Visual Studio Express 2012. I plan to make some small pure C# applications which…
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