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On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 12:34:51 +0100 David Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 October 2005 11:46, jody salt wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > > > I want to release one of my scripts as open source. > > > <snip> > > > > I want to make sure its liscenced properly - i.e. I > > don't want other companies adapting it without > > contributing. > > > > Anyone done it before? > > > > Any tips? > > > > I suspect the General Public License would be suitable for what you want: > basically it allows anyone to use the code for any purpose, but if they make > any modification they must publish the source code (so you can incorporate > their changes if you so wish). Just being pedantic... doesn't the GPL say that you can make any modifications you like what so ever, and only *have* to provide the code to these modifications if you plan on making your modified version *public*? So, in effect, I could take any GPL'd code and modify it to my heart's content for my own non-public use, and not have to provide the code to my changes. Or am I thinking of another license? <snip> Cheers. Grant. -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html