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HiI wonder if anyone can help out one of the toronto lug members with a query on oss software, I have forwarded the original message, I know there are a few members very clued up on this.
Paul
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- Subject: Re: [TLUG]: OT: non-commercial open source license?
- From: Joseph Kubik <josephkubik@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2006 11:04:44 -0500
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Here's the major "open" licenses compared: http://www.croftsoft.com/library/tutorials/opensource/ http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/licenses_summary.html Most all of the "personal use" or "academic use" licenses really don't fall into "open source". There is no reason that a give person cannot give you his code as is, without making it public. Copywrite law covers the actual code pretty well. -Joseph- On 1/4/06, Aaron Vegh <aaronvegh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi there, > I've been following progress on a tool for David Allen's Getting > Things Done methodology (if you haven't heard of it, check it out here > -- > http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0142000280/qid=1136388933/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl/701-9147722-8397935 > and browse the web for "GTD") > > The tool is called Tasktoy (www.tasktoy.com), and the developer is > hosting this rather interesting specialized content management tool on > his own server. I've asked about him open-sourcing the tool, but his > concern is that someone would post their own version and charge for > it. So the question became: is there an open source licence that would > restrict use to personal only, and not commercial? > > I have found it very difficult to penetrate the nether regions of the > open source licensing world, so any help the experts here could > provide would be appreciated! > > Cheers, > Aaron. > -- > The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org > TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns > How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml > -- The Toronto Linux Users Group. Meetings: http://tlug.ss.org TLUG requests: Linux topics, No HTML, wrap text below 80 columns How to UNSUBSCRIBE: http://tlug.ss.org/subscribe.shtml
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