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Selva
Selva

Reputation: 1360

Can I use the source code available in GitHub and customize?

This is the first I'm into open source and using GitHub, I have to develop the music app with some customization, can I use the source code available in Git hub and do the customization and release?

I feel this is not right way, Is it legal to do so? Will there be any copyrights for that app?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 554

Answers (2)

lippertsjan
lippertsjan

Reputation: 309

Update: The project in question is https://github.com/kreed/vanilla respective the active fork https://github.com/vanilla-music/vanilla

The latter is licensed under GPLv3. An explanation what this implies can be found at https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-(gpl-3)

Note: Legal advice should most likely involve talking to a lawyer.

can I use the source code available in Git hub and do the customization and release?

It depends on the license of the project you are using. E.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WTFPL is a very permissive license which allows you to do anything you want. Other licenses require you to share your souce code with anyone that requests it (GPL, Apache) and/or attribution to the project you used.

will there be any copy rights for that app?

Images, sounds etc. most likely are copy righted. I do not know if this is the case for source code; for the code I would only look at the license.

Perhaps you can also ask the author of the project you want to use.

Upvotes: 1

Hussain ID
Hussain ID

Reputation: 231

Meaning of open source means you can use it freely and that is why github is there for us. If some one has copyright problem than he would not upload the repo. on github. That's simple! you can customize it and use it anywhere.

Upvotes: 0

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