Timeline for Using open-sourced code I wrote for my employer in a private comercial product
Current License: CC BY-SA 4.0
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| Jun 22, 2020 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWorkplace/status/1274854654455750663 | ||
| Jun 9, 2020 at 14:02 | comment | added | user82352 | Did not see the MIT license mentioned. My apologies :) | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 9:58 | comment | added | sleske | @KingDuken: Actually, it does, at least according to the most widely accepted definition of "open source" (The Open Source Definition): "The license shall not require a royalty [...]". | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 9:21 | vote | accept | seg | ||
| Jun 6, 2020 at 18:47 | answer | added | gnasher729 | timeline score: 5 | |
| Jun 6, 2020 at 17:15 | comment | added | Simon B | The MIT licence does not require you to inform the copyright holder that you are using their work. I don't see how informing them could achieve anything here. | |
| Jun 6, 2020 at 16:34 | comment | added | Patricia Shanahan | Assuming your use of the code conforms to its license, there is an intermediate position of informing your employer without asking for permission. | |
| Jun 6, 2020 at 14:49 | comment | added | seg | @KingDuken well the MIT license explicitly allows everyone (free of charge) to sell and modify the code to their needs, without needing to publish the source. Only requirement being to include the license for the parts that are being used. And there are no software patents. So it is royalty free. Otherwise basically every project that pulls in popular open source libraries would need to pay royalties. There are other open source licenses of course. But that's irrelevant for my case. | |
| Jun 6, 2020 at 14:32 | review | Close votes | |||
| Jun 17, 2020 at 12:44 | |||||
| Jun 6, 2020 at 14:26 | comment | added | user82352 | Open source does not mean royalty free! | |
| Jun 6, 2020 at 13:20 | review | First posts | |||
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| Jun 6, 2020 at 13:18 | comment | added | jmoreno | Talk to a lawyer | |
| Jun 6, 2020 at 13:14 | history | asked | seg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |