I am the original developer of iText and the CEO of the iText Group. I’m also a Mentor at the Founder Institute. Please take a look at my slides for the session about Startup Legal and IP for the Founder Institute: http://www.slideshare.net/blowagie/startup-legal-and-ip iText is software and therefor copyright law applies: Copyright law allows an author … Read more
The container images will use the underlying OS license. Microsoft calls it supplmental license. You are licensed to use this Supplement in conjunction with the underlying host operating system software (“Host Software”) solely to assist running the containers feature in the Host Software. The Host Software license terms apply to your use of the Supplement. … Read more
I prefer this one: Show me the money Do with it what you want If you make money with it, show me more money
If you deploy .NET assemblies to your client machines, some kind of decompilation will always be possible using reflector and similar tools. However, this situation isn’t materially different to what you’d encounter if you wrote the application in native C++. It is always possible to decompile things – if it were impossible, the processor couldn’t … Read more
It’s the Microsoft Public License (Ms-PL). Yes, you can pretty much do whatever you want with the code. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/msp-n-p/ff648068(v=pandp.10) However, do read the conditions. Ones worth noting: If you distribute any portion of the software, you must retain all copyright, patent, trademark, and attribution notices that are present in the software. If you distribute any … Read more
Visual Studio is licensed per user. You can have one installation on your laptop and another on your desktop as long as they are both used by you only (or any other user has a license). Here’s Microsoft’s whitepaper on licensing.
“Commercial use” in cases like this is actually just a shorthand to indicate that the product is dual-licensed under both an open source and a traditional paid-for commercial license. Any “true” open source license will not discriminate against commercial use. (See clause 6 of the Open Source Definition.) However, open source licenses like the GPL … Read more
I presume you mean via SSMS? For a SQL Server Instance: SELECT SERVERPROPERTY(‘productversion’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘productlevel’), SERVERPROPERTY (‘edition’) For a SQL Server Installation: Select @@Version
From the looks of this, yes, you can use the Express edition of Visual Studio to develop commercial applications.