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Questions tagged [licenses]

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Is it legal and ethical to remove license notices from third-party code?

I want to use third-party code as my front-end framework, for example Bootstrap. In the code for Bootstrap and jQuery, there's a license. For example in boostrap.css: /*! * Bootstrap v3.0.3 * * Copyright 2013 Twitter, Inc * Licensed under the…
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Do banner ads make my website a commercial website?

I am preparing a small wiki based tutorial website.I will have to be grabbing lots of contents under the Creative Commons (CCL), and I'm planning to place some ads on the website, to cover the costs of the server, but I am concerned if these ads…
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Converting Free / Paid Fonts via fontsquirrel for Web Use

I was trying to upload a GillSansMTPro-Book font to fontsquirrel.com/fontface/generator But I got this message Monotype has requested that their font Gill Sans MT Pro Book be blacklisted by the Generator. You will not be able to convert this …
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Opengraph image and license

For our website, we sometimes re-syndicate articles and blog posts that mention our organization in our own blog on our site. We summarize the article, and include a link back to the original source. To help speed creation of such blog posts, I…
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How can I customize the Apache licence for my template design?

I have a template with the following license: /*! * name of original creator - name of theme (originalcreator.com) * Code licensed under the Apache License v2.0. * For details, see http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0. */ /* Global Styles…
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How to best protect my web designs? Licenses?

I'm afraid one of my clients might ask his fellow software engineer to design a few page templates for a WordPress-based community I'm redesigning, according to my code and design. He just bounced me back an estimate cutting down expenses on page…
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Do I need to apply a license to my website?

I am currently developing my own personal website. The website content will basically be like a personal blog. Please refer below for the website content. I will post some of my personal interests, such as knowledge sharing and other interesting…
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How should one include the license notice of a frontend framework?

Angular and VueJS are both under the MIT license, which contains the following declaration: The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software. Where would one ideally…
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Can I take images directly from Google for my affiliate site?

I have an affiliate site and I am new on this platform. I want to add images into my site. Can I take images from Google directly without changing anything for them?
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Using licensed image in a blog

I would like to use some images which are not mine in my blog (which is in development stage). Since I don't own the image I searched for images on Google which are labeled for reuse with modification. Also I searched on Flickr by filtering on…
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Does a Creative Commons "Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License" classify a nonprofit as a "commercial entity"?

If something this license applies to is used by a nonprofit, is the nonprofit considered a "commercial entity"? Because the license says: "NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes." and "A commercial use is one…
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Are logos really free to use?

On my website, I want to use several logos as icons next to files whose mimetypes are associated with those logos. Most of the logos are Apple and Microsoft. Can anyone provide a source for the claim that logos can be freely used in certain…
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Make money off a website developed in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express

Is it legal to make money of a website developed in Visual Web Developer 2010 Express (which is free)? Or do I have to buy a license or something?
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What prevents self-hosted licensed fonts being pirated?

I understand that web fonts are distributed in one of two ways: They are hosted by the type foundry, who can, to a degree, enforce license restrictions (e.g., hit rate, referral host, etc.) You just get the .woff/.woff2 file and host it…
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How to appropriately give attribution (CC BY 2.5) for splash image on landing page

I plan to use a splash image licensed by the CC BY 2.5 for a website's landing page. Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not…
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