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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 really want to use a certain tech tool, but the guy wants to charge over $100 for it. It's of sufficient motivation to make me write it myself.
Is there anything wrong with cloning his program, functionality and look, everything and open sourcing it, even though it's a blatant copy? I have no plans to rip his code.
I'm not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but I think you could mostly get away with it, as long as you truly make everything yourself and don't violate any trademarks.
Lotus v Borland says you can't copyright the functionality of the user interface. But of course, unless you're prepared to fight expensive lawsuits, this may not actually help you.
Also, another big thing to watch out for is patents. If anything in it is patented, you'll have to license it or go without that functionality.
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I saw this on the licensing information section on the Jira website
JIRA is free for use by official non-profit organisations and charities (proof of non-profit status is required). There are certain organisations whose purpose is to make the world a better place, and we believe in helping them achieve that.
Community licenses are designed for organisations which are:
* non-profit,
* non-government,
* non-academic,
* non-commercial,
* non-political and
* secular
What does the last bullet point actually mean? Does it mean that if you believe in God you cant have a free license for a bug tracking software product?
I would imagine that you as an individual may believe in God(s), but the organisation itself should not be a religious organisation.
I actually asked Atlassian support the very same question a year ot two ago and they said that they don't do community licenses for churches etc. Seemed a bit restrictive to me.
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So I am almost finished with my first app. It was constructed in Visual Studio/C#. I am now trying to determine which license to run with. I plan to provide the program free of charge to businesses and consumers, however, I do not want to publish the source code.
What is the best licensing format to go with? This application is kind of a teaser for a more powerful version so I would like to publish this one for free and hopefully make some money selling the 'power user' version.
I will be packaging Putty with this. I am about to go read their site as I may need to role my own SSH client.
I will be headed to my lawyer this week. Just want to get a bit of knowledge before I talk to her so I don't look like a dumb fool. Thanks in advance for your input!
Putty uses the MIT licence, so all you need to do is incorporate that licence along with your software. For your code you can use whatever licence you choose, no one will ask for your code unless you explicitly want to make it public.
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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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Is there any codeplex license that allows some one to use my code any way they want but not to create a program that does the same thing that my programs do?
The only way you can prevent a program from reproducing functionality is with patents.
Following on from your comment:
You will need to have a lawyer draft a license as you have very specific needs. The license will have to specify the exact conditions the code can be used under (or the conditions it cannot be used under.)
I am not aware of any "generic" license which covers this type of arrangement. And there are a wealth of issues to consider, for example:
Step 1. You have automatic copyright over your source code. This gives you, and you along the ability to distribute your application legally.
Step 2. You release the code under an open source license. The code is still yours, but now people can use it for whatever they wish, including recompiling and distributing the project under a different name (but with attribution?)
Step 3. You want to impose a restriction on the open source license, which you are within your rights to do. However this has to be very carefully worded and thought out.
Can I use part of the code in a similar application? How do you define similar?
What if I modify it? What about derivative works? Are they the same thing as your product?
Does it cover future versions of the code?
Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer. These are just ramblings that I can recall from the legal and ethical modules from my CS degree. All I can do is advise you to hire a lawyer to draft a license.