I agree with the comment about consulting a lawyer (one who knows about software license issues, though). In doing these things (and more), they more than doubled the length of the GPL. GPL 3 is many things, and one of them is that it is a very complex, technical legal document.

Jul 31, 2015 · GPL software can be used anywhere, without restrictions. In fact, the FSF (maintainers of the GPL) have harsh words for licenses that try to restrict use of the software in any way. GPL software can also be modified without restrictions, as long as the modified software is kept private. If you intend to use the GPL'd software strictly within ...

In fact, the FSF's GPL compatibility matrix includes the note: Each place that the matrix states GPLv3, the same statement about compatibility is true for AGPLv3 as well. So we can certainly know that compatibility within the xGPL family is identical for GPLv3 and AGPLv3.

For (b), not necessarily. You need to provide a means for people to replace the LGPL code on the system with their own - that doesn't have to be a "public key". Note that attempting to restrict things in this kind of way is exactly what the (L)GPL v3 is designed to stop. If you don't like that, you have the choice not to use (L)GPL v3 software.

Jul 18, 2022 · You can distribute under the GPL v3.0 without a copyright notice. But there is a problem: Just because I see "licensed under GPL v3.0" doesn't mean it is actually licensed. It could have been created by some joker who thinks it's funny to distribute someone else's closed software with a GPL v3.0 notice (it's not funny, because this can create a ...

Dec 4, 2015 · Some claim that dynamic linking doesn't make a work that has to be licensed under the GPL, or doesn't always make a work that has to be licensed under the GPL. Lawrence Rosen, General council of the OSI, argued in the Linux journal that whether or not it's linked statically or dynamically doesn't matter, but that linking to a library does not ...

Jun 26, 2022 · I want to use CMS distributed under GPL-v3 licenses. I am building a web application with closed code and my app invokes via REST API backend under GPL-v3. Question: is it legal to use GPL-v3 along with a client app with closed code and charge money for the app. I am not changing the code of CMS just using it as is.

Aug 20, 2015 · So if GPL-licensed code ever gets included in your project, for example via linking against a GPL'd library, you must also provide your whole project under the GPL. There's some disagreement on whether GPL comes into play when a library is dynamically linked; GNU are of the opinion that it does, and provides the alternative license LGPL, or ...

Feb 8, 2022 · Pawn is licensed under Apache 2.0 that i know. Infact, i use Pawn source files in my project. I also make use of a project SA-MP, which is a multiplayer modification of game. This SA-MP is licensed under GPL v3. As that is so, my whole program can be licensed under GPL v3. The question is under whose name.-My name or SA-MP team.

Jul 14, 2015 · The GPL can be applied to any software, regardless of what that software does when it is run. But from a purely technical viewpoint, open source software can hardly be effective at enforcing DRM because the user could easily modify the software to ignore any restriction the DRM mandates to impose on use of the data the program processes.