OT: non-commercial open source license?

[Joseph Kubik]

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-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> 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.
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