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“What if you get hit by a bus?”
I'm negotiating a B2B licensing deal for some technology.
I typically license it as a managed service, and don't share code, because I want to protect trade secrets.
A new potential client is hoping ...
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Software licensing: Charge per-major-version or per one-year-free-upgrades?
We struggling for years with the best way to license our software and see two options:
A) Minor service updates are free-of-charge and we only charge for each upgrade to a major new version that are ...
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Software Sales & License Billing for Small Startup
I have just started a small software startup and one of my current headaches is the management of licenses that we sell / lease...
I am looking for a system that can manage the billing and contact ...
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Web Based or Desktop application for managing your licenses / serial numbers?
I am planning on using a third party component/software for managing the serial number /licenses for my software. I have two options for the third party applications; a web based application that I ...
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what should be in a software license/terms of service/end user license agreement?
I suppose I should find a decent attorney for this, but I'd like to see if I can find some "free" resources first.
My company is about to release a software product (actually bundled together with ...
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What to consider when licensing source code
Component vendors like Syncfusion and Infragistics often make source code available to their customers (at an additional fee). Some benefits of this would appear to be:
Enable customers to make ...
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Should we license our source code?
We are a small shop that have developed a platform for developing applications that can run both in the cloud and on premise, A PAAS offering. You could compare it to Microsoft XRM or Salesforce - ...
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Looking for payment system with licensing (key delivering) for .NET software
I developed .NET application and planning to sell it on monthly/yearly subscription plans.
At first I found that Plimus has licensing system and everything else that I need, but when I finally decided ...
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How do you price a technology licensing/white-labeling agreement?
We built a consumer facing web app and have been growing our user base by iterating on the product for a little over a year. A large media company has inquired about licensing our technology to power ...
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Giving away free licences to universities, charities and open source projects
How do you feel about giving away free licenses (original price: $2000) to universities, charities and open source projects of your software to spread the word?
Is it a good idea?
Shall we demand ...
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what in terms of license is true free DB for commercial use?
I like to distribute with my application that is commercial db installation
mysql is gpl so i guess this is out of the question .
what do you suggest to use as real free db for commercial ...
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Can you modify code under the MIT Open Source licence?
I'm considering building an community over Pinax. The out-of-the-box functionality covers maybe 60% of what we need to do. We're more than happy to debug and support the base code set but need to keep ...
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One license on multiple computers for development tools and OS
We assign a laptop and a desktop to our workers. Can 1 license of both windows and developer tools be used on both?
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How did Magento create an commercial Enterprise version when magento is open source?
It's interesting how an open source product has a commercial version, nice business strategy to get market penetration!
How did Magento create an commercial Enterprise version when magento is open ...
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Do I need to pay for a commercial licence?
I'm working on a software application in a large company as consultant. I use a library released as Dual License Model (AGPL v3 and Commercial).
Do I need to purchase a commercial license to use the ...
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Negotiating a licensing deal for my iOS app
I've created a fairly successful iOS app that sells for $9.99 in the App store. It brings in about 75k per year and has been featured twice by Apple since launch. In the past few months, three ...
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When do I worry about the legal stuff?
I heard somewhere that you don't have a business unless you are making money and you need to worry about legal stuff only then. Is this true?
Am I eventually going to need to get help with terms ...
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How to license closed source free-ware application for distribution to the public?
I have created a small application/tool, and I would like to release it to the public under those conditions:
It is free. (donations are welcome)
It is closed source.
In the future, I might create a ...
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Can a license to a patent be considered a company's IP
Can a license to a patent be considered a company's IP or asset? What can constitute as a company's IP?
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Approach copyright holders to licence IP for my game
I built an electronic version of a popular board game. I got some good responses on avoiding legal issues, but I went ahead and built it anyway, keeping it private for obvious reasons. Everyone who ...
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Software content/output ownership
Does a ISV have the right to add a watermark to the export of users content, like video, images or pdf’s for paid noncommercial users?
The idea is to prevent commercial users creating and selling ...
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Seller permit to sell online in US for non resident
I am a non resident of US. I'm setting up this online store where you can buy consumer products - targeted at US market. When I approached wholesale suppliers who don't have any affliate model they ...
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Having a license to your product instead of owning it?
Contracted a developer to build a product. Contract was and we were halfway through the project before we had it in hand (realized mistake there, moving on....) We were under the impression that we ...
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How to get licensing rights for US TV shows in countries like India?
How do I get licensing rights for streaming TV shows, which are broadcast in US, in India? Who do I contact? What is the correct procedure to follow? If possible, what are the relevant laws?
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CC Attribution license
I'm developing an app for android, I found an icon that I would like to use, the icon is licensed under the CC Attribution 3.0 Unported license, which says that I can freely use it for commercial ...
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Pitfalls for Licensees?
I am an inventor looking to license my technology from the organisation where I developed it (with potential for assignment). Please advise on the potential pitfalls of an exclusive license deal that ...
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Can I sell modified versions of ElegantThemes Wordpress themes as finished web design project for hire?
Can I sell modified versions of ElegantThemes Wordpress themes as finished web design project for hire?
The terms and conditions at ElegantThemes say:
All of our theme packages are released under ...
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License for open-source project that I'd like to earn money from
I had an idea some time ago for a website. After much coding and banging out the idea, I've got it to a decent stage.
If I were someone else, potentially a more commercially-minded person, I might ...
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Legality of usage of Competitor's Scripting Language
We have a software which supports scripting. One of our main competitors has a software which works in the same way.
I wonder if it is legal for our software to support their properiatery scripting ...
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Mention of LGPL/MIT source code in a commercial software
My commercial software is using some code source licensed under LGPL or MIT.
How and where should I mention this?
Is it mandatory?
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looking to start a CPA practice
I have an accounting degree from New Zealand (many years ago!) but have never used it as a qualified accountant here in California just as a business consultant.
I want to get my CPA license and ...
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Licenses required for a business
A friend of ours recently was looking at opening a liquor store, which obviously required liquor license and to be able fit into a county quotas, etc.
But this brought a different question, if I am ...
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Can I offer hosted service of an AGPL licensed app?
We've been thinking of offering hosted/managed service of SugarCRM to our client.
The community edition is licensed under Affero GPL.
My questions, with this license in place, can we:
Offer the ...
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Would you need an online gambling license that uses virtual money that can be exchanged to products/services?
Let's say the online casino is using some virtual currency, which you can buy with real money via credit card. The users may exchange those virtual funds for products or services, instead of cashing ...
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Software Company Drops Our Company From Service
We have a contact with a software company that is becoming a hot issue -- it's renewal time.
The contract allows the 3rd party to drop us at will after we've paid our licensing fees for 5 years in a ...
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FLOSS licensing: should I force copyleft notice in footer?
I'm developing a fairly large web-application with a public-facing JSON REST API, mobile apps for every platform (using AngularJS with Apache Cordova) and specialised e-commerce configurable by users.
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License model for University/Colleges
We have a product that is sold to schools as a site license. It is used by teachers and students alike. We found that entry was a lot easier when the purchasing process was perceived as simple and ...
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Who is responsible for tracking copyright issues?
I have a brand new website for easy sharing of music. The files are intended to be copyright free (home recordings, podcasts etc). The system though could easily be used for music which does have ...
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Vendor's License E-commerce site
I am creating an ecommerce site that sells products all across the country. I am based in Ohio and so is the company. I want to know what vendor's licenses that I need to acquire to start selling ...
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Commerical Open Source and Community Open Source
I am thinking on working on an ERP system that I can sell or support on it. Currently, I have OpenERP and Tryton in my mind. Based on the comparison done on Wikipedia and other website, I was noticed ...
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MySQL and PostgreSQL licence issue
Our company wants to use MySQL for one software product, and our product is not open-source. Is it legal to use it freely?
If not, how about PostgreSQL? Is this okay for our purpose?
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Explaining my software license to customers/users
My software comes with the standard Apache 2.0 License which covers our bases pretty well while providing flexibility for us and our customers to use/modify the software to their needs.
I have found ...
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Startup Enterprise Software License Agreement for the UK
I've been searching the valuable info in the posts and most suggest to use a lawyer to get a license agreement, especially for the enterprise software we've developed. It's costed by the number of ...
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Do you need a license to operate a bus/minibus in California? [closed]
I would like to provide a minibus service: a customer makes an order through a web page and a minibus picks this customer up to ride him anywhere he wants. The payment is done by a credit card on the ...
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What permits and insurances do I need to open a taxi company? [closed]
I am interested in opening a taxi-like business where a passenger can order a taxi by phone (or through mobile app). I do not live in US now and the search has not yielded any answers to me.
So the ...
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create web service around a software is considered a license breach
If I create a web service and the web service uses a desktop program that I bought to generate the output, will I violate the license of that program? the web service will be used by the clients. ...
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un renewed state licence and tax issues
I hopo you can give me a little advice I created a llc company in DE couple years ago, I never use it (is a parachute company if I lost my job), I'm being paying federal and state taxes, but I did not ...
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Starting travel business in Massachusetts?
I currently run a home based travel agnecy in WA state, and will be moving to MA next year. I looked around the MA gov't website to try and find out what I need to transfer my company, but it's very ...
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Is it OK to begin with OSS licensed code and then since the business plan has some uniqueness rewrite it later?
My company now a sole-proprieter at this point is for many years coming up with a business plan and modifying it. All along developers tried to do and complete the project but they could not handle ...
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Terms and Conditions for a Meetup.com-style network?
I am about to open up registrations to my open-source meetup.com alternative, but am worried about the legal side.
What sort of things should I put in the Terms and Conditions, and do I need them to ...
