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Re: Help to pick a license for my free source code project
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Rui Miguel Silva Seabra |
Subject: |
Re: Help to pick a license for my free source code project |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:46:00 +0100 |
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On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 01:56:10AM -0700, KomsBomb@hotmail.com wrote:
> This item is not very important.
If it's not important that it is Free Software, then go fetch legal
advice. This is a group about Free Software.
> If the license forces the user to distribute the source code
> with the program,
The it isn't Free Software. No Free Software licenses forces the user
to distribute anything.
Even the GNU GPL, what it says roughly is:
IF AND ONLY IF you distribute, then...
> I really don't mind if it's commercial or not.
Are you confusing commercial with proprietary?
Commercial => used in a commercial context (charging for copies,
support, etc...)
Proprietary => does not grant the receiving user the 4 Software
Freedoms described by the Free Software Foundation
> However, I don't want any other sells the source code or compiled
> binary directly without any derived work.
Why would you do that? What advantage do you get?
You get no advantage at all as far as I can see.
> Then any advice?
Release it under the GNU GPL, control all patches to the software.
That way you can release it as Free Software, but if anyone wants
to have a proprietary derivative, charge as much as you can for
a special proprietary license for that person.
It's the model of MySQL, for instance.
Rui
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