Software relicensing is applied in open-source software development when software licenses of software modules are incompatible and are required to be...
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2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. Frederic William Neitzke. A Software Law Primer. Van Nostrand Reinhold...
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restrictions. FSF who are sole copyright holders of LibreDWG objected to relicensing. With regards to FreeCAD project and Yorik van Havre, its contributor...
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of the GNU operating system In the Free Software Foundation's guide to license compatibility and relicensing, Richard Stallman defines permissive licenses...
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effective. Copyleft free software, therefore, shares many properties with public-domain software, but does not allow relicensing or sublicensing. Unlike...
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2017. Archived from the original on 2022-05-31. Retrieved 2017-09-16. "Relicensing React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js". Facebook Code. 2017-09-23. Archived...
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Legacy system (redirect from Legacy software)
Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. Lamb, John (June 2008). "Legacy...
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assign rights to the project (as above) but with various restrictions on relicensing: using the template requires choosing one of the mutually-exclusive options...
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Abstraction (computer science) (redirect from Abstraction (software))
Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. E, Jian-Yu; Saldanha, Ian J...
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Mattis, Peter; Darnell, Ben; Kimball, Spencer (2019-06-04). "Why we're relicensing CockroachDB". Cockroach Labs. Archived from the original on 2022-11-07...
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Kyoto Common Lisp (category Common Lisp (programming language) software)
Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. "GCL - GNU Common Lisp". "Embeddable...
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Non-uniform memory access (section Software support)
Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. Nakul Manchanda; Karan Anand...
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Ncurses (category Free software programmed in Ada)
terms. According to the maintainer Thomas E. Dickey, this precludes relicensing to the GPL in any version, since it would place restrictions on the programs...
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Multitier architecture (category Software architecture)
Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. Linux journal, Three Tier Architecture...
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License compatibility (redirect from Compatibility of software licenses)
it into proprietary software. Many copyleft licenses explicitly allow relicensing under some other copyleft licenses. Permissive licenses are (with minor...
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GNU Affero General Public License (category Free Software Foundation)
under the other license, despite the licenses otherwise not allowing relicensing under the terms of each other. In this way, the copyleft of each license...
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GNU Free Documentation License includes a specific provision for wiki relicensing, and Creative Commons licenses are also popular. When no license is specified...
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Mercurial (redirect from Hg (software))
"Matt Mackall is now Olivia Mackall". Mercurial. Retrieved 28 May 2021. "Relicensing", Mercurial (wiki), Mercurial-scm.org. Mackall, Matt (29 April 2005)...
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of notable software packages which were published under a proprietary software license but later released as free and open-source software, or into the...
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Business Source License (category Software licensing)
Source License (SPDX id BUSL) is a software license which publishes source code but limits the right to use the software to certain classes of users. The...
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Netscape Public License (category Free and open-source software licenses)
the Netscape Public License by Richard Stallman on GNU.org "Mozilla Relicensing FAQ Version 1.1". mozilla.org. Archived from the original on 2010-05-13...
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Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. "Panini biography". School...
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Eucalyptus is a paid and open-source computer software for building Amazon Web Services (AWS)-compatible private and hybrid cloud computing environments...
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Copyleft (redirect from Software hoarding)
in certain circumstances, for example in the case of the Ogg Vorbis relicensing. "Viral license" is a pejorative name for copyleft licenses. It originates...
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.NET (redirect from .NET (software platform))
seeded with a subset of the libraries' source code and coincided with the relicensing of Microsoft's existing .NET reference source away from the restrictions...
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Second-system effect (category Software quality)
Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. Brooks, Frederick P. Jr. (1975)...
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Apache OpenOffice (redirect from Apache Software Foundation OpenOffice)
Dennis (24 May 2012). "RE: LibreOffice relicensing efforts". Apache Incubator mailing list. Apache Software Foundation. Archived from the original on...
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Common Development and Distribution License (category Free and open-source software licenses)
code files under other licenses is permitted without relicensing. The resulting compiled software product ("binary") can be licensed and sold under a different...
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Q Public License (category Qt (software))
Archived from the original on March 24, 2018. Retrieved October 27, 2018. "Relicensing Hercules". hercules-390 mailing list. 1 January 2024. "OCaml 4.03 Release...
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Interpreter (computing) (redirect from Interpreter (computer software))
Dictionary of Computing prior to 1 November 2008 and incorporated under the "relicensing" terms of the GFDL, version 1.3 or later. "Compilers vs. interpreters:...
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