In order to sell the software that I am creating and for avoiding legal troubles how should I deal with the opensource libraries and opensource code that I borrow to create my software.\n\nI am using about 30% of source code that doesn't belong to me
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In general you are not obliged to give away royalties in the sense that whatever is your source it will continue to be yours. This means that you hold the credit for your own code. What else you can keep depends on the specific license of each library you use in your project. Most open source licenses will dictate that whenever you distribute your application you should make the sources for the dependency libraries available to your client. Some dictate that your own sources should be available as well. Some other licenses won't allow you to distribute your application commercially unless you pay for the library you used.\nIn brief read the license that comes with each library you used carefully it should be clear what you must, can, or can't do.
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You need an INSTALLER KIT to do this for you that will logically arrange the files for you since you're most likely not an advanced programer which is why so many of these GREAT FREE SOURCES and it's so cool they're free saving literal thousands in purchasing your own secure socket layer for the web, but an excellent one you can use is the WIN 32 installer, just download it and it will literally with a a wizard like GUI (GRAPHICS USER INTERFACE) assist you in dragging and dropping files in whatever WYSIYG editor you're using or writepad, etc. I would recommened that you get with someone who KNOWS about programming because although the PHP (Hypertext Pre Processing) language is what we're taiking about when talking about SSL'S ext and or carts, pay pal, etc. this will totally assist you in getting your files in the correct places they need to be, so your banque account grows PHAT, and belive meif your using this OPEN SOURCE files you NEED FOR THEM TO BE MIRRORED correctly just like when you eventualy FTP (File Transfer Protocal to the web) WYSIWYG (whis is pronounced WIZZ-EE-WHIG and means WHAT YOU SEE IS WHAT YOU GET, are WEB design applicatons powerful in that they happen to take your words and WRITE THEM in Hyper Text markup language, the problem is, too many people see the free stuff all of the open source code that is aviaabe to use to use for stores (and I assume you're using a 9GB file of OPEN  SOURCE for a store on the web, so you can securely take and process credit cards, etc. ane your customers can feel secure in what they're purchasihg and no phisher/catcher/or you yourself are not some fake store front becuase immediately in your desination bar it will read instead of http, it should change to htts the S being SECURE and theyre will be a LOCK icon on the bottom - okay enough of that, you can do this and I commend you but don't try to do it alone get with someone who is if not into programming and has some understanding about the HYPTERTEXT PRE PROCESSING languge is about, etc. and then this beautiful thing happened, YOU LEARN,yes, you actually find yourself learning and building confidence that HEY, this aint so bad afterall, becaue the BEST way to get overrun, or burned, etc, is to use something we don't understand, but gry here first they have a FREE INSTALLER that should END your problems - http://www.slproweb.com/products/Win32OpenSSL.html\n\nIT's a great site, quality and they'll definately make your life easier, as I said this shite is hard enough with not knowing hot to arrang those files and where they go, and they each have a place to o, etc. I hope this helped please let me know because all you ahe to do to find FREE installers, etc. and you can do the "longhand" or shorthadnded versionk etc - just go to your favourite search engine and type in "WHERE DO I FIND FREE PROGRAMS THAT WILL HELP MME INSTALL (ive whatever your installing brief descritpion adn vioa you amy et a MILLION files I'ad put those all into a single FOLDER marked SSI or whatever,but bring them back out, and I'd wish you luck but I dont believ it's a matter of luck it's more preserverence, attitude (which youre's seems to be in the perfect place!) I wil offer up what I think your doing is VERY cool and an excellent way to learn and build confidence, especially in a field coinated for years well, um...TOTAL WANKERS, and now the parity is lesseing as I type or read or what not util absolutely everyone one day will be the same with the same skills set and equal pay pay based on ability not breast size and depends upon honesty, openmindednes, and wilingness in the work force to restructure to become accountabe and to pay a woman with the exact same years of experience, the same pay, and doing this should be to my bleeding heart card carrying tree hugging ACLU thinking the EXACT thing that shold motive other NON -TRADITIONAL programmers, etc.to build out, to beco
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Be very leery of the companies on TV that say they will bring your idea to market.  Most of those are scams.  They will steal your idea and give you little to nothing for it.  Have you considered who you would sell the product or service to?  Depending on the product, you can have your product manufactured by a company that does that kind of stuff, then sell the finished product to a retailer.  You would be the "middle-man" but your only work is finding a good manufacturer with the right price and selling the finished product to the retailer once.  (Think of selling it to a Wal-mart.)  You'd take a nice profit off the top.  Have you considered licensing your product to a distributor thus receiving a royalty.  That reduces a lot of headache and minimizes your liability.  It would be their responsibility to manufacture it and sell it.  Those little battery testers on packages were done that way.  Don't put all your hope in a "company" that will magically make you rich.  You are creative, so think of creative ways to get the product to market.
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I'd dump it into a compiler and do it for you but you left too much out.  Impossible to return a syntax error free version without the whole program.\n\nAnyways, I get paid for this.  How many points is this worth?  ...to do someone's homework for him?  Or maybe he's doing contract work!  He's getting $70 and hour to let us do it for him!
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If you have an idea of what needs to be done then you can check out places like Rent A Coder. This company specializes in providing an "escrow" service specifically designed for Computer, Programming and Internet related entrepeneurs and coders. They've been around for 5+ years. It's free for buyers. Basically you sign up and post your job requirements and then people bid on it. You look at their profile, and their bids and choose. Once the project is completed you market it as being done, you get the receivables and the coder gets paid.
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Yes, it is higly illegal to trade software, regardless if the original company is no longer around. That company more than likely sold the rights to their software to another company, who now holds the copyright on it. And as far as abandonware goes, rights don't expire on software for 75 years. So unless the files have been offically released as public domain, they are still copyrighted, and still illegal to trade.
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So what you are asking is for people to help you steal software. \nWhy don't you get a job, make some money and buy the program? It's people like you , who have no sense of decency, who are making this world a worse place to live. Betcha pirate music also, don't you? If you can't afford to buy it, you don't need it.\nAt least you have a 360 profile, so the powers that be can easily track you down, you pirating scum.\n\n\nIdiot.
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OK .. looking at your other questions .. i know u work with MS Access and Oracle .. for this project go with Access for sure .. it will be easer to market .. will not need costly licencess .. and it's much easer .. \nand the best thing to do when u want to start any project .. first do it on paper .. the Analysis ... so .. just find any close glasses shop to get all the data u need .. here u got two options \n1- find a glasses shop who already have a program .. that could help u know what to do in your program .. but most probably they will not want u in their shop .. they already have a program.\n2- Find a glasses shop who dont have a program .. tell them u will do it for them for free .. or with a very special price if they help u with the info .. \n\nTry to have something special in your program to make people want to buy it .. \nGood Luck
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What do want to distribute? What specific items would you prefer.\nFind someone doing what you want to do and copy them.\nNo need to reinvent the wheel!
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What I usually do is surf a book site like amazon, barnes & noble, chapters and when I find a book that appears to be what I want, I then do a search on a file sharing network for an ebook version of it.\n\nI know it is not the most legal way of doing it, but for personal use I think it would be ok. \n\nJust so you know, from one programmer to another, I have found very few books dedicated strictly to testing. You are better off looking at general "programming design and good practices" types of books which will also have several chapters dedicated to good testing... both system and unit testing if it is a really good book.
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The canonical way to earn money from open source is to offer customization and support. You provide the software as-is for free, and offer value-added materials like manuals, training, and custom modifications for a price. The theory is that once written, the code has no marginal cost, but the other products and services do.\n\nThe most common open-source license is GNU, and you can legally repackage and resell any code released under the GNU license provided you make the full source code available and release it under the same license -- which means that you have no recourse if someone else takes your distribution, repackages it, and redistributes it at a slightly lower price. Really, the place to make money is in customization and other consulting work, not from the software itself.
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Patent and/or copyright everything first. Once all your documentation is in place you can go hunting for whatever resources you need (within legal limits and regulations - I have no idea what your project is, or who's funding it...).\n\nMake sure you have a lawyer that covers you with proper non disclosure agreements for others to sign and you're fine.\n\n-dh
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1.  If you want an interesting project, try http://www.halfbakery.com/category/Computer Be aware that many of the suggestions there are either impractical, difficult, or not software-related.\n\n2.  Make a game.\n\n3.  If you want to make something new that people will use, ask if anyone has any ideas in the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup (unless you plan to charge) or look through the archives for requests for programs which were unfulfilled.  ( http://groups.google.com/group/alt.comp.freeware/ )
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My advice would be, don't quit your day job. If you have been "recruited" by one of those firms you see on TV or on the Internet, chances are you will end up with nothing significant. For every one good, new idea that makes someone a ton of money, there's thousands of not-so-new ideas. I'd recommend patenting the idea as soon as possible, then researching on your own to see if there is an existing patent that may be too similar to yours for you to be able to sell your product. There is a delay from the time where you request/file your patent to when it is verified, and even that does not guarantee there is not someone else out there who has the same idea already patented.  Also get your own valuation of the idea's worth. You will have to pay fees for these services but it will be better to pay an independant third-party out of your own pocket than to turn your idea over to someone who may not have your best interest at heart.
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I am not a lawyer, and you should probably speak to one about this, but here's my two cents. The full legal text says, "You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works."\n\nDetermining what is "primarily intended" for commercial purposes is somewhat hazy, but if you are not making more money than it costs to run the site, etc. (factoring in non-cash costs like your time as well), you are likely acting within the license. Making money is not completely forbidden by the license, but using the work primarily to do so.
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I don t think you can find open source code for such system with out  any charge so you can do it by yourself or visit rentcoder.com to make another person do it for you
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"You may not exercise any of the rights granted to You in Section 3 above in any manner that is primarily intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation. The exchange of the Work for other copyrighted works by means of digital file-sharing or otherwise shall not be considered to be intended for or directed toward commercial advantage or private monetary compensation, provided there is no payment of any monetary compensation in connection with the exchange of copyrighted works."\n\nSource: Creative Commons Non-Commercial License.\n\nIf the item is copyrighted under a different Creative Commons License, then you need to go to:\nhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/\nand find the right one for the work that you want to use.