There is no reliable licensing algorithm. Really. Not even one. For the most popular, most expensive proprietary software you can buy, you can also find “key generators” and hacked versions that don’t require licensing. Instead of worrying about making it “unbreakable”, just do something simple. A popular mechanism is to, at purchase, ask for the … Read more
If you want to ensure that anyone who modifies your program or builds on top of your program (by linking to it) should share their changes in the same way that you share yours, you should choose the GPL. If you want to ensure that anyone who modifies your library share their changes, but allow … Read more
I solved this, without having to completely reinstall Visual Studio 2013. For those who may come across this in the future, the following steps worked for me: Run the ISO (or vs_professional.exe). If you get the error below, you need to update the Windows Registry to trick the installer into thinking you still have the … Read more
Yes, you can. From the product information page: Visual Studio Express products are available at no charge and may be used for commercial, production usage subject to the license terms provided with each product. For example, you can use Express for Windows to create apps that you can then submit for sale in the Windows … Read more
We are migrating to Booksleeve, which was developed by the people who have built StackOverflow itself. So far we had very good experiences. The money is not the issue (the cost of migration is higher than paying for the license), we’re doing it because we just don’t want to enter a business relationship with company … Read more
Yes, and you don’t have to release your project’s source (but you do have to release any modification you make to MySQL itself (only those not the whole program) if you also release your project in binary form containing the modified MySQL code) In more simple terms, if you modify MySQL and those modifications end … Read more
I have been working on implementing licensing in my app for some time now and finally have it working. I wanted to share some of the things I found helpful for getting started and some problems and solutions that I found with everyone. The android dev tutorial I have linked below is ok, but it … Read more
This issue comes up repeatedly on the cocoa-dev mailing list and the consensus answer is always do the simplest thing possible. Determined hackers will break all but the most over-engineered solution. And they’re unlikely to pay for the software anyways. Go for the 80/20 solution: the easy solution that gets 80% effect for 20% effort. … Read more
COPYING is standard in the GNU project. I think that either of COPYING or LICENSE would be understood. The FSF has a guide on how to use the GPL, which suggests COPYING, while the Producing Open Source Software book suggests either COPYING or LICENSE. The Apache License recommends a boilerplate that just points to the … Read more
The Maven Project Info Reports Plugin can be used to generate a Project Dependencies report that lists all dependencies and also groups them by licenses. The project-info-reports:dependencies goal can be used to generate an individual report but it should be used as a Maven report and is actually provided by default (see Configuring Reports) when … Read more