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Can someone tell me which all licenses restrict a user from removing the license notification at the top of a file?
Case:
Some JavaScript files have sections like this:
“/* RequireJS 0.26.0 Copyright (c) 2010-2011, The Dojo Foundation All
Rights Reserved. Available via the MIT or new BSD license. see:
http://github.com/jrburke/requirejs for details
*/”
During compression is it fair to remove this?
You won't run into any problems removing the license from the top if it doesn't say you can't. A minifier will remove the comment too.
Just don't redistribute the code without the license.
Both the MIT and BSD licenses (the two options that header indicates) require that the license is kept intact. You should not remove it during compression.
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I need to write an application on windows that connects to avahi running on Linux.I need opensource tools that i can use on windows os.
Im aware of BONJOUR.But it is tied to apple licenses...
Im not aware of tools.Can somebody suggest something?
Thanks
Bonjour is not tied to any Apple licenses as stated on this official webpage. Instead Apple has released it under the Open Source Apache 2.0 license. This allows you to view the source code and also link against it in your own open source project.
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I remember reading about an open source license which did not grant permission to fork.
I don't remember its name and thought it might be easier to ask here than to go through the entire list of OSI's approved licenses. Anyone knows which license I might be talking about?
First thing which comes to my mind is CC-ND: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/2.0/
I suspect that you're embarking on a doomed quest here, given that item 3 of the OSI definition of an open source license seems to explicitly prohibit a clause that would prevent forking.
By definition Open Source allow fork:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_definition
A license that didn't allow forking isn't an Open Source license
Probably the only thing you can do is just use some trickery, like manipulate your trademark policy and the code well enough to effectively prevent a fork.
And as was mentioned, doing this in the license will technically make it no longer free software.
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Let's say write a C library, and I want all versions of the source to carry my copyright/license, but I want users of the library distributing executable code, static or dynamically linked library to be a able to do so without restriction (including making reference to my particular license). Does such an open source license exist?
Both the zlib/libpng license and the Boost license fit those criteria.
There is always the DWTFYW License :)
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I remember encountering a commercial software that scanned a project's source code and provided a list of all the different software licenses it used. That is, it would find all the third party code used in a project and give their licenses (Apache, GPL, ...).
Can anyone provide a link to such a program?
Found the one I remembered:
http://www.blackducksoftware.com/protex - Protex by Black Duck.
The key term to use in google, as I learned the hard way, is "Software Compliance Management".
FOSSology is a GPL-licensed tool for analyzing OS licensing. It's main capability is to do pattern matching against uploaded source code and find matching licenses.
I know about a Ruby library called Ohcount.
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Is there an open source implementation of Google AdWords, or is the technology protected in some way (such as being patented)?
Edit: To clarify, I'm looking for a 3rd party implementation of an AdWords-like system (that has nothing to to with Google AdWords beyond the concept and superficial similarity).
Depending on what part of the system you are looking to replicate you should give OpenX ad server a try. You can install it on your own servers or use their hosted version. There are other open source ad servers but this one seems to work pretty well.