Questions tagged [foss]

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Is license attribution required for server-hosted (not distributed) use

Am I required to show license and attribution for libraries I don't distribute but use on the web server? Whether to produce the web pages I serve or to access data sources, etc. To phrase it another way; is it about what I distribute, or what I use…
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Can I use these components in my project or are their licenses incompatible?

I have currently two software licensing projects at hand: one is based on the eclipse (v2) framework and the in the other the codebase is proprietary. In the Eclipse project, we created and linked a module to the Eclipse codebase and also link an…
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FOSS License compatibility

I have been struggling to understand license compatibility and how it manifests. Two examples: I have a program to which i wrote the codebase. This codebase then dynamically links to two different open source libraries. One is licensed under Apache…
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Can use figures from software documentation licensed under Apache2 in a conference paper?

I'm writing a paper that will be published in a conference. It is a technical paper, and I am discussing my use of a software framework licensed under Apache 2.0. Their documentation has an image I would like to include in my paper. Is this allowed?