RE: How does licensing work for open source software(available on the internet) or books written

Step One: reach out to Christian and ask him for permission (he has a contact form on his blog, or a good excuse to connect on LinkedIn).

 

Jeff

 

From: kunwar singh <krishsingh.111_at_gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:35 PM To: ORACLE-L <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: How does licensing work for open source software(available on the internet) or books written

 

Hi Listers,

I have one question.

 

I am thinking of writing a book/blog and because i have never done these before i have one question .

What are the licensing dos and donts when using or referencing work of others.

 

Lets say i write a blog/book and reference for e.g. exact testcase used in the below blog.

HYPERLINK "https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/antognini.ch/2019/04/vsql_cs_histograms-what-are-the-buckets-thresholds/__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!MIntfw0DgN3xCFapbdtmx6ZkVYnkjZdNpccVXZCllE7CwT-BSvgESSNJeCW5_wQyUGc$"https://antognini.ch/2019/04/vsql_cs_histograms-what-are-the-buckets-thresholds/ 

 

Or is that a strict no-no? Does every piece of blog/book have to be written by myself or does it depend on the flexibility or license details put by the author of the referenced blog/blook?

 

I plan put the reference details at the end of the blog/book. 

 

another example.

i plan to use few of the scripts from the below:

HYPERLINK "https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/antognini.ch/downloads/top2/allfiles.zip__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!MIntfw0DgN3xCFapbdtmx6ZkVYnkjZdNpccVXZCllE7CwT-BSvgESSNJeCW5WmKLxRs$"https://antognini.ch/downloads/top2/allfiles.zip

 

Some of the blogs/book refer to HYPERLINK "https://urldefense.com/v3/__http:/www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0__;!!GqivPVa7Brio!MIntfw0DgN3xCFapbdtmx6ZkVYnkjZdNpccVXZCllE7CwT-BSvgESSNJeCW5b8mRKs4$"http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

What does it mean in simple terms. This is my first time so wondering and any inputs would be appreciated :) 

 

Apologies if this is a very basic qn, but none of my peers/seniors have written a book and i have great regard for community here , so though of checking.

 

P.S. My above example is just one out of many i may use. I use many such on my day-to-day work

 

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Cheers,
Kunwar

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