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There's some code on CodeProject that's already OSS under the CodeProject license.
I've contacted the author several times on his blog, but he's not responding to any request for putting the code on CodePlex (or any email at all).
Since it's OSS anyway, I thought I'd do it without his permission (and ofcourse give him all the credit).
I figure this is ethically okay as long as I choose the closest license to the codeproject license.
Does anyone know the closest license to the CodeProject one I should use?
On CodePlex you can use a custom license. Just copy over the CodeProject license.
You cant change the license on a piece of code without the authors permission. End of story, full stop, etc etc.
If you are embedding it in another project (as I believe the CodeProject license allows), then make sure to put a notice inside your COPYING file (or equivilent) with a copy of the codeproject license, the affected file[s] and the authors legal name.
This sounds like a question for a lawyer. Comparing licenses for some kind of "equivalence" is very hard.
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I made an app and I don't have the knowledge to add a few things that I want. I found a developer online. How can I protect my app to make sure it doesn't get stolen?
If you give him your source code, no technical measures can stop him from stealing the source code. If he were local to you, you could require him to use a locked-down computer in your own office, but I don't think that is an option for you.
If your app has substantial non-code assets (graphics, sound, databases, etc.) you could give him only the minimal subset of assets necessary for testing.
If the app talks to a server you control, and you don't also give him the code/data to set up his own server, then him stealing your code may be less harmful.
Other than that, you need to consider legal enforcement, not technical enforcement.
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I'm developing a report engine for iOS devices which uses CoreData.
I wish release it with an open source license, but I don't know which is the best to choose.
These are the requisites that I need to be satisfied:
The engine could be used in commercial and non-commercial apps
The developer that use the engine must give public credits into the app
If the developer makes changes to the engine must release it (and only it) in a public repository or must send them to me to integrate them into a newer release.
Have you some suggestion?
I think this license(LGPL v3) right for you.
As Marc B said, you really should talk to a lawyer. In the meantime, you may want to visit http://www.opensource.org/ for some studying and Larry Rosen wrote an excellent book on the topic: http://www.rosenlaw.com/oslbook.htm .
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So far I have been suggesting new features to http://delphi.uservoice.com
Since it is managed by Nick Hodges (who is no longer an employee of Embarcadero) I decided to report my future improvements requests to http://qc.embarcadero.com
Is QC this the right way to go or is there a dedecated Idea Share solution I am not aware of?
Just as a reference I will point one of my suggestions Add Patterns.pas to allow easily document code
Please advise which is best place to submit such stuff to?
QC is the only official place for end users to report bugs or make suggestions. While alternatives like uservoice might be nice I'm not aware of any Embarcadero employees actively monitoring that site.
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On the one hand there is http://ckfinder.com/
CKFinder or the people behind it have always been very vague about their licenses when we asked information about them, so we aren't really fond of using their commercially licensed products.
So I've looked for an alternative and found http://kcfinder.sunhater.com which comes with an LGPL license, perfect for use in a commercial application that just wants to use the file browser and not modify it.
Now they both look very similar and my question is: is KCfinder a legal alternative to CKfinder? Or is it an exact and modified copy?
Does anyone know this or can find this out?
Yes. Just because KCFinder has a similar name and interface doesn't mean that it violates the license of CKFinder. To do that, it would have to reuse the CKFinder code, and the author says he developed KCFinder "because I was unable to find a usable free alternative of the commercial CKFinder." There's no reason to assume that he copied any code. If he had, the author of CKFinder would have undoubtedly found out, and it would no longer be available.
Its being featured on the SourceForge Blog should erase any doubt. blog
A good alternative is elFinder (http://elfinder.org/).
Licensed under a 3 clauses BSD license.
At least the name is clearly a low level marketing attempt to confuse users and disturb CKFinder. There is a good chance that this is a trade mark violation.
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As the title suggests I am looking for a open source ERP package. While there are tons of ERPs out there, None of them meet my needs. I am looking for a package which I can use configuration or minimal coding to create my customize ERP package for a customer. MS CRM has this ability, it has some built in modules as well we can add more module using configuration files and where needs extend the functionality using aspx of workflow (dll) modules. Please let me know if you need more info on this, I have been looking for this for sometime and yet to get something.
I ended up using Sugar CRM for the need because of its ability to customize the package.
IntarS might be your solution. Very extensible, running real world productive implementations since 10 years. Universal application architecture.
I think ebizframe ERP software can meet your needs related to ERP.
Check erpnext.com - clean, easy to read codebase, available on gihub with an excellent team of guys supporting it. They also offer a hosting service to go with it which is very affordable. Your data is also safe - you can get a mysql dump of all of it at any time if you need to.