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I've read over both GPL and GNU Lesser licenses, and have one concern.

If you maid a difference between student and XYZ Corp in your licence, you 
don't do 'free software'  anymore.

You could  use GPL or LGPL to force user to publish there modification to your 
core. If you own all the copyright, you could also sell "closed" version of 
your code, like Trolltech do for Qt and MySQL Labs with Mysql.

Nicolas Boulay

Le mercredi 16 Novembre 2005 19:40, dsp@m... a écrit :
> I've read over both GPL and GNU Lesser licenses, and have one concern.
> Hopefully someone here has experience or can offer an explanation.
>
> My concern is this:
> I've written/am writing core modules for my TI Dev board project, and
> want to release these cores as 'free software' to individuals,
> however, would like those that would use this set of cores in a
> profitable way to contribute back to QorTek in one form or another.
>
> I have no problem with students/individuals using these cores for
> school/personal projects, in fact I encourage them to do so. But if
> XYZ Corp wants to use the cores in verbatim/modified form and sell
> that software based on these cores, is there a way to impose fees on
> them? Is there another license that covers this?
>
> I dont want to start any flame wars, I'm just new to GNU GPL/Lesser
> and general software licenses.
>
> Thanks in advance.
> Brian
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