Licensing question

Clayton Dukes cdukes at gmail.com
Fri Feb 26 03:59:50 UTC 2010


Well...that's unfortunate...
Anyone have any suggestions of a better approach?

Basically, I want to take care of "the little" guy, but still make
something for my work over the last 9 years :-)


On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Bani <borboleta at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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>>
>> Clayton Dukes
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>>
>



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