OT: non-commercial open source license?

[Paul Sutton]

I have forwarded this to my local lug in the uK as there are a few 
members who are clued up on all the GPL stuff,

Hope this helps

Paul

Joseph Kubik wrote:

>Here's the major "open" licenses compared:
>
>http://www.croftsoft.com/library/tutorials/opensource/
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>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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