What software license to use?

Question

I'm finishing a CMS (Control Management System) written in PHP5 and that uses Zend Framework an CKEditor (www.ckeditor.com). I have plans to make it commercial but I don't know what kind of license to use in the software.

The code will be open (I won't compile or encrypt PHP code with any things like Zend Guard).

People can:

• Create plugins for it
• Modify it for personal use
• Distribute the modifications but not make it commercial

The licenses will be sold per-domain or per-developer.

So, there's any license that fits with these requeriments?

Any help would be appreciate.

(Please don't answer things like "get a lawyer")

Answer 1

Please don't answer things like "get a lawyer"

If you know everyone'll be saying "get a lawyer", you need a lawyer.

Answer 2

Unfortunately you're not going to find a public license that does exactly what you want. A lot of time and effort have gone into making the various open source/free software licenses (GPL, LGPL, BSD, etc) legal in most juristictions for the express purpose of keeping the software free. There are no "generic" software licenses floating around, every single commercial vendor retains legal counsel to do this sort of thing.

You will need a license crafted by legal counsel, sorry!