open source license with exceptions for commercial use

David dirvine at david-irvine.com
Wed Jan 23 10:09:12 UTC 2002


On Wed, 2002-01-23 at 03:46, David Johnson wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 January 2002 02:59 pm, Tobias Wegner wrote:
> 
> > 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 ?
> 
> Open Source means the software is free to use for any purpose by any person. 
> Software that restricts commercial usage will not be Open Source, no matter 
> how free it may otherwise be.
> 
Would the QPL / commercial license not cover this issue. I think the QPL
is in fact an Open Source liencse, but may only work well for libraries
/ building tools.
 

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