What license to pick...

[David Johnson]

On Fri, 29 Sep 2000, Lionello Lunesu wrote:
> OK..
> 
> So we (my company) have decided to make our VR-toolkit open source! But we
> haven't decided which license to use for it. GPL seems the obvious choice,
> but we want to restrict the freedom somehow (at least in the beginning, just
> so we can ge more organised). We definately want to prohibit commercial use
> (I guess GPL covers this), but we also want to be notified of any changes
> made in our source (so we can review them and possibly build them in, in the
> 'real' version). AND we don't want other people to be able to create their
> own distribution of the toolkit. I guess GPL allows them to do this. I've
> also looked at QPL (from Qt free edition) and it might be what we're looking
> for.

Let's see... You don't want commercial use, you don't want
private modifications, and you don't want others to create their own
distribution.

Are you sure you really want your software to be Open Source?

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David Johnson
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