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licensing
- Mar 2, 2026 Complying With Source Obligations When Shipping Binaries What counts as conveying a copy, how corresponding source is defined for a compiled artifact including its build scripts, and how a build can archive the exact sources and licenses that a shipped binary implies. computing history
- Nov 17, 2025 Relicensing a Mature Project: Consent, Forks, and Downstream Effects Changing a project license is a copyright transaction with every rightsholder in the tree, not a policy announcement; the routes that avoid consent, the audit that establishes who must be asked, and what a change cannot reach. computing history
- Nov 5, 2025 SPDX License Expressions and Machine-Readable Provenance How a single identifier grammar replaced prose license statements, what the operators and version suffixes encode, and why the declared license of a package and the licenses of its files routinely disagree. computing history
- Jul 30, 2025 License Compatibility and the Direction of Relicensing Combining two licensed works produces one distribution that must satisfy every condition in it; why permissive code can move into copyleft but not the reverse, and which patent and version clauses block a combination outright. computing history
- Dec 26, 2024 Contribution Agreements: Certification, License Grants, and Assignment A project can only grant what its contributors gave it, so inbound terms are chosen from three mechanisms with different costs: a signed-off certification, a broad license grant to a steward, or a transfer of copyright. computing history
- Aug 7, 2024 Termination, Cure, and Enforcement of License Conditions A failed condition removes the permission rather than merely breaking a promise, so the GPLs terminate rights automatically and then offer defined windows to get them back; who can sue is decided by who holds copyright. computing history
- Mar 20, 2024 How Copyleft Travels Through Derivative Works The GPL binds works based on the original, not software on the same disk: how the license text draws the boundary, what conveying a binary obliges a distributor to supply, and where library and file-scope licenses shift the line. computing history
- Jun 30, 2022 What a Software License Does to a Copyright Default Copyright reserves reproduction, modification and distribution from the moment code is fixed, so a license is a conditional permission that lifts specific rights; permissive and copyleft terms differ only in the conditions attached. computing history