looking for a license

[Arnoud Engelfriet]

mkr wrote:
> 2. Modifying
> Everyone should be able to freely modify the software with the following 
> conditions:
>   . modified work must have the same license
>   . renaming of the product and executables
>   . if one wants to see his mods included in the main distribution he 
>     needs to transfer the copyright to the initial developer -> Artistic
>   . distribution of mods like above

It seems to me that the GPL is best suited for this kind of thing.
How you handle contributions for the "main" distribution has
nothing to do with the license, in my opinion. Just set separate
rules for that, just like the FSF does for the GNU project.

Yet another license should be avoided if at all possible.

> 4. Commercial use
> . Unlimited use of the software within the company for any purpose
> . commercial modifications: company has to inform recipient of 
>   modification about initial developer

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Do you mean just to say "this
software was written by so-and-so"? That seems perfectly normal.

Arnoud

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