[mdlug] License help needed

[bob dion]

David Favro wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anyone know of a source for free software license information?  I
> am writing some software that I want to release under a license that is
> less than 100% free (I want to deny licensees the freedom to sell my
> software without contributing some of the profits to me).  In other
> words, it would be dual-licensed, at your option:
> 1. GPL but restricted: you can't sell it
> 2. Commercial license, you can sell it but a negotiated royalty per
> license would be returned to me.
> 
> It's not that I think anyone would want to sell my software, and please
> excuse me for denying users their rights, but I simply feel that all my
> life I have made many corporations a lot of money through my hard work,
> and while they have paid me, they made a lot more than me, and mostly
> what I got was repetitive motion injury.  Now I don't want to take any
> risk that it happens again, without them returning a little to me.  So
> (not that these guys would want it, but you never know): include in
> Ubuntu -- no problem.  Include in RHEL -- only if I get a fraction of
> their fee for each license they sell.
> 
> So, I started looking for license resources and haven't found them.
> 
> The Free Software Foundation maintains a list of licenses
> (http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html), but it only
> categorizes them by Copyleft vs. Non-Copyleft and GPL-compatible vs.
> non-GPL-compatible -- very little additional description of the nature
> of the license.
> 
> I wrote to the Software Freedom Law Center
> (http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ -- this is the FSF's legal counsel, and
> the guys who wrote the GPL), but they responded to me that denying
> others the right to sell my software without returning a portion of the
> profits to me makes it non-free software, and they don't help people who
> write non-free software, so they refused to help me.
> 
> So, I wonder, does anyone here know of such a license, or of a web
> resource (list of licenses, describing the differences between them), or
> better, a Usenet group or mailing-list or other forum where these things
> are discussed?  I must believe that someone else also wants this kind of
> license.
>

If I'm not mistaken Mysql is (duo)licensed in a way that required a fee 
for inclusion into a commercial product.

also the OSI might be of help.
http://www.opensource.org/

BD