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Questions tagged [license]

A License can be official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing, product or material.

A License can be official or legal permission to do or own a specified thing or product. Examples of this can include what type of licence to issue software under or Creative Commons licenses on some course material.

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How are papers on NIPS Proceedings licensed?

I can see that there is a copyright claim on the NIPS Proceedings webpage for the years 1987 to 2017 but I haven't been able to find under what license the papers are copyrighted. How can I see that? In particular, I'm looking for the license of the…
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Am I allowed to my article to researchGate which is so far only published at arXiv?

I understand that in general, it depends on the publishing license of the journal if I am allowed to distribute my article further. However, I want to know if I can upload an article, which I submitted to arXiv prior to publication in any journal…
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Is software developed by publicly funded research groups legally public domain?

In the United States, if a university lab develops code while receiving public funding, are they legally obligated to release their source code?
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Publishing dissertation with ProQuest and include CC BY-SA 4.0 images

I was wondering if images with license of type CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en can be safely (legally) included when a dissertation is published with ProQuest by my university. Also: The question is: If I do not…
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