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I want to start making apps for Android and I want to know if I can start safely with free license and see if I can make some money with advertisements inside my apps. So my question is can I do that?
The Community License is free. It does not permit any form of
commercial use. Furthermore, the Community License allows you to
publish free apps on a public market place such as (but not limited
to) Google Play or SlideME.
It seems like kind of commercial use, but then again, the application would be free...
If the answer is no, would you recommend some other way of making apps that would be free? HTML5? Java with Eclipse?
Thanks in advance!
Ads inside your app is considered commercial so you would need the Pro license. You may start without ads with the community license. See how your audience grows and then move to the Pro license when you feel it pays off.
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This question may have been answered already, but I haven't been able to find an answer matching my scenario. I'm trying to understand when it's required to purchase a license for iTextSharp.
I want to use iTextSharp in an intranet application within a for-profit company. Can I use the free version? Or am I required to purchase a license? I will not be selling the application or the source code. The application will be used internally by members of the organization.
The issue is not about the internal/external use. It's not even about selling the application or not. It's just a matter of license:
If you release you application under a AGPL-compatible license, you don't need to purchase an iText commercial license.
In not, you'll have to contact their sales department, and purchase one.
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I'm writing a small book in software development practices and I want to licensed it as open-source, but I don't how these license thing works. Thanks
You may wish to start your search at the creative commons family of licenses, which provide pre-written licenses with a variety of features (non-commercial use only vs commercial use allowed, etc).
Using pre-written software licenses is probably not the best starting point for anything but software.
First you need to be really clear about what you want to achieve. Do you want to earn money on it in any way or from things like corporate customers? Or maybe you just want to let it out for free for anyone to use as they please. In the latter case, you don't really need any licensing at all.
After you have figured out what you want to achieve, we can help you further.
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I have decided to release my software with two licenses. At the same time I want this to be open-source. So how would I dual license? Which licenses do I pick?
I want one license to be very similar to GPL as long as the user uses it for non-commercial projects. The other license would be a commercial license (the user has to pay) so that the user can use it in commercial projects (doesn't matter whether it is proprietary or not for the commercial license).
Sencha provides a good example of the dual licensing model in practice. It sounds like your goals are similar theirs. They have options of GPL and a proprietary Commercial License. It seems like a pretty good setup really. If folks want to use your product as a competitive advantage in their business they have to pay for it.
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I seem to recall hearing at some point (I believe it was MIX09) that Microsoft has a licensing model of some sort where a business can consume licenses for up to two years, free of charge, until they reach a point where they are stable position and can pay their licensing at the end of two years. However, I can't find information regarding it online.
I want to say that possibly stackoverflow used this licensing model to kick start their site. Is anyone familiar with this?
In addition to BizSpark (as per #paul) there are also WebSpark and, as of May 2010, the developer MAPS programmes.
Webspark information is here: http://www.microsoft.com/web/websitespark/default.aspx
Details of the Action Pack (MAPS) are currently here: https://partner.microsoft.com/global/40132997
I'm fairly certain that in all cases availablility varies by your location - but if you're producing stuff for/with/on Microsoft tools/platforms then they're all worth a look.
You're thinking of BizSpark:
http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/
There is also the Empower program if you're an existing business, not a startup.
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This is more of a licencing issue than a code question. I really like the ckeditor editor and would like to use it in my freelance projects which I do for clients. However upon reading the license page it has me in a bit of a confusion. DO I have to buy licences if I intend to use this in cms websites that I build myself and hand over to clients?
If so then what are my alternate options which don't cost anything?
Its should be ok, if you don't change anything of its source, IMHO.
Integrating CKEditor in commercial
software, taking care of satisfying
the Open Source licenses terms, while
not able or interested on supporting
CKEditor and its development.
I am not a lawyer, but the dual licensing model would appear to not prevent you from using the open source licensed CKEditor in your cms / client projects, as long as the terms of the chosen license are met.
What you cannot do is sell, give away or otherwise distribute the editor to third parties without providing them with access to the source code and the license attached to the product.