Software licenses and releasing Python programs for review

Ivan Voras ivoras at fer.hr
Sat May 28 06:32:30 EDT 2005


poisondart wrote:

> Ultimately I desire two things from the license (but not limited to):
> - being able to distribute it freely, anybody can modify it
> - nobody is allowed to make profit from my code (other than myself)

GPL does something like this, except it doesn't forbid anyone to sell 
the software. Also, you do realize that if you make it freely 
distributable and modifiable, you could get into the situations where 
potential customers say "so why should we buy it from him when we can 
get it free from X"?



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