Licensing question

Bani borboleta at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 03:20:39 UTC 2010


According to the Open Source definition you can't discriminate the use
(commercial/non-commercial) or where the software will be used (large
or small company), therefore there is no open source license that
suits your needs.

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:07 AM, Clayton Dukes <cdukes at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello License Gods :-)
> I'm trying to figure out which licensing best suits my goals:
>
> 1. I want to allow smaller companies, say less than 50 employees, use
> my software free of charge.
> 2. Larger companies will pay a licensing fee (based on the size of the company).
> 3. Any modifications/bug fixes should be shared back.
> 4. Users cannot use my code in a commercial product without my permission.
>
> Can you recommend a license that fits this ideology?
>
> Also note (not sure if it's important?)
> My software is written using other open source programs, such as PHP -
> does this affect my license?
>
> Thanks!
>
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