Which DUAL Licence should I choose.

[Thomas Schneider]

Hello David again,

    First thanks for your advise. :-)
    Second I *do* want to pay royalties to Contributor's (measured in 
number of contributed source code lines), when possible.

The whole intent would be to get a Network of IT Professional's 
maintaining (and selling)  the Software in question.

I'm currenlty just writing an Installation Procedure which will require 
Identification of all User's of the Software,
but am still struggling around with the Licence issues.

But thank's to all the advise I'm getting from this group, I do now see 
my possibilities (an limitations)
much more clearer.

Thanks you all for your advise!
Thomas.
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Am 31.07.2011 01:02, schrieb David Woolley:
> Thomas Schneider wrote:
>>
>> what I really would like to do is:
>>
>> a) OPEN the SOURCE (of PP, the Program Porting Machine) there on
>
> Open should not be in capitals, as you are using it in a generic
> sense, not the open source sense.
>
>> www.kenai.com
>
> I can't see anything in their terms of use that requires open source.
>>
>> b) Permit usage for free for a LIMITED amount of SOURCE Code for
>>
>>     * private usage by individual programmers
>>     * DEMO-purposes (I call this a DEMO Licence)
>
> Depending on how limited LIMITED is, and which country, it is just
> possible that this would be considered fair use and not require a
> licence.
>
>>
>> d) Collect CONTRIBUTOR's (implementing other SOURCE and TARGET
>> Languages), helping in Documentation, etc.
>
> You can try, but the terms you are proposing will put most potential
> contributors off.  Quite a few people will contribute small bug fixes
> regardless of licence, but people who contribute significant new
> material will normally require an open source licence.  If they
> consider the software important enough, they may also allow you the
> right to use their contributions in proprietary forks.
>
> You will also need a contributors' licence.  For normal GPL cases, the
> GPL doubles as that, but I don't think you want to have to pay
> royalties to your contributors, so you need an asymmetric licence!
>
>>
>> e) EARN Money. I spent all of my money and time for this project.
>
> Money can be earned other than through royalties.
>
>>
>> 1.) Is there any EXISTING licence type available fulfilling my need's ?
>
> This is not the right forum for expertise on non-open source licences.
>
>> 2.) *OR*:
>>
>> May I simply write this down as a "ThSITC" Licence (in a plain Text
>
> You will need to write it in a legally valid form.  As the default is
> very limited permissions, you provide it in any reasonable form.
> Making it difficult to access will just reduce the number of
> legitimate users.
>
>> File)and PUBLISH the source of PP (and a couple of related products)
>> there on www.KENAI.com under a 'OTHER Licence' ???
>
> I can't see anything in the terms of use for Kenai that would forbid
> this, but you really should consult them.
>
>
>>
>> Whar do you think/say?
>>
>


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Thomas Schneider (www.thsitc.com)