open source license with exceptions for commercial use

[Michael Bauer]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Tobias Wegner wrote:

> hallo altogether !
> 
> i am new to this mailing list, so i dont know wether or not this question has been asked bevor. i hope it wasn't, otherwise i appologize for this.

I don't know either, but the archive for the list is here:
http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3

> 
> for my software projects i am looking for a license, that garanties free and unlimited use for noncommercial purposes like private use, research, redistribution, etc.
> if someone wants to make money with it, i mean he gets more money than his selfcosts, he should license it from me. than he should also be freed from publishing source code, but as a "punish" he must pay a license fee. would you know a license, that covers my intentions ?

>From what I can gather from your message I don't think such a license 
would enjoy much support from the members of this list as it goes against 
a number of the principles of this list, as defined in such places as 
http://opensource.org/docs/definition_plain.html.


> 
> thank you, tobias wegner
> 

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