OT: non-commercial open source license?

[Paul Sutton]

With the GPL can't you charge a reasonable amount for the code to say 
cover costs..  Also with the gpl don't you have to also publish what 
changes you have made, to the original code, and say this is different 
to the original version  if you are going to relase your own version,

Paul

Joseph Kubik wrote:

>Here's the major "open" licenses compared:
>
>http://www.croftsoft.com/library/tutorials/opensource/
>
>http://developer.kde.org/documentation/licensing/licenses_summary.html
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>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:
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>
>>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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