- our software is free to download
- the source comes with it, so you are free to edit the code for your own use
- we (the authors) own the rights to the code
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The MIT Licence.
http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
Or one of the other open source licenses.
DRL
2010-07-06 22:45:52
Under which license would we be protected from someone taking our code and releasing it under a different name? We want to be the sole maintainers and owners of the code, but anyone is able to see and edit the code for their own uses, commercial or noncommercial, so long as they're not redistributing the entire package.
Citizen
2010-07-08 17:27:03
@Citizen: I believe the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike option would suit this. It allows users to modify and redistribute it, but only under the same name and license (so they can't change the name, they can't sell it, but they can give away their modified version of it, sort of like a game mod).
animuson
2010-07-08 18:38:09
@animuson, that is sort of exactly the opposite what he asked for...
Amigable Clark Kant
2010-10-05 12:24:27
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Any Open Source license will fit. To avoid people using your name, trademark the name and note somewhere on the website and in the source itself, that you may not use that name anywhere and that the name is property of whatever company or entity owning the name.
Amigable Clark Kant
2010-10-05 12:23:37