Which DUAL Licence should I choose.

[Thomas Schneider]

Hello dear pre-name college Thomas W. :-)

Many thanks for this hint. I will go ahead and have a look at AFPL[1].
Johannes Penzias, please also do have a look at it (URL below).

What I really want to have is a *fair share* model.

when some-one sell's my software, I, as the author, would like to have 50 %.
when someone CONTRIBUTES to the software, by implementing enhancements,
maintaining the Wiki, acting as the SVN admin, etc, he will also get a 
fair share
(in % of cumulated sales).

My major reason for opening the source is, that you never know what's 
happening in you own life.

I'm attaching a presentation of PP (The generalized Program Porting 
Machine) for you info
at this mail.

As I did invest my whole time money to get PP developped, I don't want 
that anybody
can sell it without giving me a payback for my efforts. I hope you do 
understand.

And let me take this oppurtunity to *thank you* for all the advise I'm 
getting from this group :-)

Thomas Schneider.
CEO, ThSITC IT-Consulting KG
Vienna, Austria.
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Am 29.07.2011 21:40, schrieb TW:
> Maybe something like the AFPL[1] would be an option for you.  It's
> certainly not an open source license by the definition of the OSI or
> the FSF, but it prevents others from selling your software unless they
> buy a commercial license from you.
>
> Thomas W.
>
> [1] http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/AFPL
>
>
> 2011/7/29 Thomas Schneider<Thomas.Schneider at thsitc.com>:
>> Hello John, many thanks for your reply :-)  I do *NOT* understand the
>> implications of your last paragraph, however.
>>
>> I would like to OPEN SOURCE the code for maintenance (by other's) , and
>> would *at the same time* like
>> to *earn money* out of it.  I did invest more than 8 man-year's into PP, the
>>   Program Porting machine,
>> and would like, as the Author, to get some payback for it's usage.
>>
>> As far as I understand it currently, this is NOT POSSIBLE with the OPEN
>> SOURCE Scheme at all.
>>
>> When you could explain the implications of your last sentence (marked
>> below), you will be more than welcome!
>>
>> Thomas Schneider.
>> ===================================================================================.
>> Am 29.07.2011 00:24, schrieb John Cowan:
>>> Thomas Schneider scripsit:
>>>
>>>> 1.) I would like to OPEN SOURCE the source code there on www.Kenai.com
>>>> 2.) I would like to make the usage FREE for individuals, with a
>>>> limited amount of source code processed (say 5.000 thru 10.000
>>>> Code-Lines maximum)
>>>>
>>>> *but*
>>>>
>>>> 3.) I would like to CHARGE a Licence Fee for commerical user's, e.g.
>>>> big companies (mainly, IBM Mainframe Customer's) using those tool's to
>>>> port their existing software from PL/I and/or COBOL to Java.
>>> This is not possible under any open-source license, as all open-source
>>> licenses are available to all, without discrimination of any kind.
>>>
>>> You can write a proprietary license (or, in practice, pay a lawyer to do
>>> so) that imposes any knd of restrictions you want, and not provide the
>>> source to anyone who hasn't explicitly accepted your license.
>>>
>>
>>> If your product is really of commercial value, companies will be happy
>>> to pay you to provide support, customization, and maintenance without
>>> any need for anything but an open-source license on the code itself.
>>>
>> Quote: ... without any need for anything but an open source licence of the
>> code itself.
>>
>> This paragraph I don't understand!.
>>
>> I do have some partner's around the world who might be interested to
>> CONTRIBUTE
>> to my software. In order to be able to do so, I would like to OPEN SOURCE
>> the Software on KENAI,
>> but SELL it !
>>
>> As far as I can see it now, this is a *contradiction* per se. Isn't it ??
>>
>> Thomas.
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Schneider (www.thsitc.com)
>>


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Thomas Schneider (www.thsitc.com)
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