Licensing Questions

As an ISV/software publisher, would you produce your own licensing/copy protection solution, or would you buy into a professional solution? Which route would you choose and why?

Software Copyright Licensing

asked Jun 8 '10 at 18:59

Clare
61 points

I would like to use some commercial music for the opening of a podcast series. Can I use it without licensing the usage if I use a short fragment? If at all possible, how short? I once read...

Licensing

asked Feb 25 '10 at 20:25

Pietro Polsinelli
125 points

In an HRIS (human resources) application there are active and inactive employees - the inactive need to be kept for legal reasons but also for application effectiveness as employee id is used as a...

License Saas Licensing

asked Sep 16 '13 at 19:35

Bhttoan
735 points

I have a .net licensing tool that I have created that is currently being used by many developers and I am at a point to start advertising it for a larger audience. How do you effectively market a...

Marketing Licensing

asked Sep 17 '13 at 11:41

Smt
6 points

If I make and sell some software (online if that matters), and say that software ends up causing some unexpected behavior (let's go extreme and say it deletes all data on the hard drive!). Am I...

Sales Legal Licensing Liability

asked Mar 22 '13 at 07:09

Snake Doc
179 points

I was wondering if someone can give me methodologies, strategies, and references for answering this question, as I have to develop a revenue model.

Licensing

asked Feb 13 '13 at 03:46

Parseltongue
120 points

Does content licensed under open licenses such as the Creative Commons Share-Alike or the GNU free documentation license affect in anyway software that uses such open content. The core issue is:...

Licensing Content Software Licensing

asked Sep 4 '12 at 15:51

Basel Shishani
106 points

What were the details of the IP licensing agreement between Google and Stanford for PageRank? For example, what PERCENTAGE equity and royalty rate did Google give to Stanford? Were there...

Legal Intellectual Property Licensing

asked Sep 13 '12 at 07:53

Cklin
21 points

I have been working on a medium sized web application for a large client, on site, for 3 years. I work as a contractor on the project, handling most of the coding, but the application itself and...

Independent Contractor Licensing Web App Clients

asked Jul 19 '12 at 02:01

User357320
113 points

I run a small business in custom software development in Canada, and I think it has gotten to the point where I can release my own product. My question has to do with using existing...

Products Intellectual Property Licensing Small Business

asked May 8 '12 at 03:03

Super Tron
108 points

i currently own a domain name in the name of an LLC. ideally, we'd like to license subdomains (e.g., productA.example.com, productB.example.com) to developers to develop applications that generally...

LLC Licensing

asked Mar 28 '12 at 04:51

Aosik
103 points

I asked a question recently here, discussing options for what to do in my current situation. The other co-founders let me know they no longer think I deserve 20%, and I decided it was the last...

Intellectual Property Licensing

asked Mar 29 '12 at 12:56

Phil
210 points

I wrote a sudoku application and put it in the chrome app store. It is quite popular. I have received serious requests from media companies asking to include my application as part of their mobile...

Sales Business Licensing Software Licensing

asked Mar 4 '12 at 03:51

Hvgotcodes
171 points

My webmaster signed an agreement saying that all work done on the website is owned by our company. He now thinks that he is being payed unfairly and wants the website to be taken down. He says...

Website Web Services Licensing Software Licensing Contractor

asked Feb 14 '12 at 11:11

Kyle Berkley
31 points

I have developed a portable C++ software library. I would like to discuss how to license that software (license models). Consider that the library price would be < 5.000 EUR and that it can be...

Licensing Software Licensing

asked Nov 16 '11 at 05:06

Lukeluke
21 points

I'm author of the "Agile Toolkit " Framework. Currently it's available under dual license Affero GPL - any use, personal or commercial Permissive license for $130/domain Permissive license for...

Software Open Source Licensing Web Dev

asked Oct 24 '11 at 06:15

Romaninsh
253 points

Let's say our theoretical company has a SaaS product for which we charge $xx per month. The product is entirely web based and the backend includes GPL code. As I understand it, since our product...

Saas Licensing GPL

asked Oct 3 '11 at 06:06

Mr. Schwabe
147 points

Let me take a general example to demonstrate my dilemma. Say I am making a web-based project (which I am). Now I want to use some code that is used some other place already. Say I want to...

Website Copyright Licensing

asked Aug 27 '11 at 18:29

Kraken
133 points

I am developing software that will be useful during search engine optimisation of a website. This software is a desktop java application. I have heard that (specifically) Java applications can...

Licensing Software Licensing

asked Aug 20 '11 at 00:16

User893664
18 points

I run a startup web app that is an informational resource as well as marketplace. The marketplace side has been slow to ramp up, so revenue is minimal. Recently, I've been contacted by several...

Pricing Licensing

asked Apr 27 '11 at 08:40

Mister Eee
28 points