did someone just enter without knocking? Blasphemy!
@Mnementh despite opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/1767/… being a not good question that should be closed it is an open source program. Where did you get the impression it's not?
@Martijn I never found a license, not in the source or on the website. That's why I wrote I found no hint the software is open source. But despite it being open source or not, the question has nothing to do with open-sourceness or not.
doesn't change my main point, the question isn't influenced by the software being open source, it is entirely about tool-usage that would be the same for open source or proprietary
Has it occurred to anyone that free products (music, books, software, etc) solve the following artificial problem due to users being reachable globally: the authors that get global popularity get super rich?
Ideally wouldn't it be best if individuals only earned money through their physical eff...
@Martijn In this case the part there society wants to accomplish X is even missing. Wouldn't it be best depends strongly on what people are consider as good, and in many cases the opinions on what is good strongly differ.
I'm not sure if this is the right place for this question since the software I'm developing isn't completely open source, but here goes.
Long story short (and for context), I'm a member of a not-for-profit organisation. I develop and maintain several pieces of software used only inside the organ...
I'll see if I have the time later. The .NET environement is my day job, and though for my dayjob I don't have much to do with distributing open source, I might be able to squeeze out a decent answer if I take some time
because it's a massive headache. It can quickly lead to dll hell if you don't install the dlls in the GAC, and there is all sorts of arcane invocations to be done through probing paths and whatnot
I shouldn't have the same .dll in the GAC. I've already said, if they need SSMS, remote into the server to do it.
That's kind of why this powershell module is being written, to skip all the hassle of remoting in.
All I really need to know now, is how do I word the license. Basically any powershell scripts are mine, and any DLL's belong to Microsoft and whatever license terms they've imposed?
That's what I'm not sure of. I just need something that allows them to change the source of the scripts of they need to and they can't hold me liable if it breaks. (If that's even possible)
I've always said to my boss if he needs to run the source past our IT guys, he can do so.
it's hard to advice anything particular for your situation, because pretty much any license fits, other than the GPL or AGPL which may make downstream re-distribution difficult
So I'm new to all this licensing jazz, and I've just started work on a project I'd like to one day publish as open source.
I've found a couple of projects so far that have code to accomplish stuff similar to what I'd like to do, and as such I'd like to use it because it is probably more mature/t...
I need to include a notice file saying that anything under the module is licensed under the MIT license and anything in the dependencies folder is licensed under microsoft software license terms for the shared management objects?
because licensing is hard, and programmers tend to care primarily about code, and not so much about licenses, sometimes the licensing of nuget packages is lacking
it's a tricky situation, because the author usually wants them to be used and redistributed, but from a licensing perspective that's not always possible/legal
I'm only worried about the licensing since I or my organisation can't afford to get sued. They're worried about keeping addicts from relapsing, not getting sued over a software license.
You might get a few more from me then. All I need to to make sure everything I write for my boss gets licensed properly since I'm not selling it to them or anything like that.
I'll keep this bookmarked anyway, might need it again later once I've actually written the notice.
liability disclaimers are part of pretty much any license. Whether they are effective in court would probably depend on the jurisdiction, but AFAIK this has never been tested, which means that in decades of open source nobody ever got sued over their software
Has it occurred to anyone that free products (music, books, software, etc) solve the following artificial problem due to users being reachable globally: the authors that get global popularity get super rich?
Ideally wouldn't it be best if individuals only earned money through their physical eff...
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