From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2005-05-27T06:29:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Licensing Question

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 06:16 +0900, Zach Dennis wrote:
> I wrote a suite of tools, webstar-tools, 
> (http://rubyforge.org/projects/webstar-tools/) in ruby in my own spare 
> time. I gave my code an MIT-style license.
> 
> I then had an employee write the same functionality in another language.
> 
> What would suggestions be to license the code? I want the code to be 
> available open source to the community, but if it is used I would like 
> it to be noted that the code retains author/ownership of the company I 
> work for. The new code is written in java. If the code is used 
> commercially I would like them to get written permissions/consent (or to 
>   pay license for commercial use), but if the code is not resold by 
> itself or in another product I would like it to be used freely by everyone.

That itself doesn't seem like an open license.

The closest is probably the GPL, which makes it inconvenient to re-sell,
though not impossible.

Anything that restricts commercial use directly is not open source.