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cygnusX	27 May, 2008 - 12:09 AM Post #1
D.I.C Head Joined: 19 May, 2007 Posts: 159 My Contributions	Let's say i'm writing open source application and want to restrict other people to distribute the application if they have made some changes to it.I mean i want to allow people to make changes but only for them.I've searched for such license but didn't find any.Like i said i don't want to restrict further distribution of my application,i only want to restrict distribution if the user that use it make some changes,i mean adding some features that he/she needs,remove features or change already existing features...That's it.Can you help me with this?
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Tom9729	2 Jun, 2008 - 04:23 PM Post #2
Debian guru Joined: 30 Dec, 2007 Posts: 1,447 Thanked 10 times Dream Kudos: 325 My Contributions	You want to let them have the source but not release any modifications to it? Or do you not want to force them to release modifications to it? Because if that's the case, then BSD is the licence you are looking for. Otherwise I'm not so sure. Depending on what you're writing, you could probably just make up your own license. It sounds like what you want is similar to some kind of NDA (non-disclosure agreement), similar to what Microsoft does with the Windows sourcecode.
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cygnusX	3 Jun, 2008 - 01:50 AM Post #3
D.I.C Head Joined: 19 May, 2007 Posts: 159 My Contributions	QUOTE(Tom9729 @ 2 Jun, 2008 - 05:23 PM) You want to let them have the source but not release any modifications to it? Yes.
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Nova Dragoon	3 Jun, 2008 - 01:46 PM Post #4
The Innocent Shall Suffer, Big Time Joined: 16 Aug, 2001 Posts: 6,128 Thanked 4 times Dream Kudos: 515 Expert In: Python, Linux My Contributions	Write your own licence. Keep in mind however if you use any open source code that is GPL, then you have to release your application under GPL as well.
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