From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jul 23 12:24:09 2017 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0852CD7CE9D for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:24:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michaelsprivate@gmail.com) Received: from mail-qt0-x230.google.com (mail-qt0-x230.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400d:c0d::230]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id B653583282 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:24:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from michaelsprivate@gmail.com) Received: by mail-qt0-x230.google.com with SMTP id b40so58690491qtb.2 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 05:24:08 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc; bh=xn5LvkZQ9UMM8bPuxm/HtUyg4zARUn74lJ6gacwECpE=; b=ZKSd8yPFZpc+VKOZLwEW2DD84XC7doNyCiHpz8VBkyPP9czFbrdMpkjFJbAH/eLfAa FM3kQneKQktMKTE4QWt2qlPWG0Lpj73f/pvwefxgs5Io6EWJivmnUW83hYagRCwNRnqC WdQ6MjshFb+eDL3tlkaOc2WkrWwqb5tPifjLSJLcYlgVh0H1fSN2xARc7pc2kJTObTnc pxdC9qqU7i6fKcnB6oT8ey9XQoumeZziVWZKAj3h+vhvNADOUcdFJsNs9yq/VQ7D45wQ 7fT0SzwZTVUyCDe09140rLZHYcqTv67zWmKl7aj29JZ1i0hJw8QCaMER2Afa30VJ5M2T M2qw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date :message-id:subject:to:cc; bh=xn5LvkZQ9UMM8bPuxm/HtUyg4zARUn74lJ6gacwECpE=; b=ISiCgV0wGWrkjo0GS413LVNj1qsoSw8X9S4Ar+/S32f020DLthfGaa2yXZDTkLPWJy t8IZ85XIMhHd0Ag+A3ZpYkPtNGCCB4SW6pja3yb4s0zPpfE3KMXlXgqxq5Ae7jzNyrrT GJ1Z5Ltx36KjDju1IVWvmZ1sGdb+Ny0MLQm19lvVX5GuthnmuWmX4TFsZ92AyBz7RYMB BZrt++VkUhKklGiUjOtCKEH7FIZH4r27CJIR02jW5+a+REVzDoF9Hu5JdKcXgU0NZakj AUd1c5ihKozCcy9ScTvJUdi7MsjpyNK0J1i54Y/1pUYx+pwLemr+a79cbNaXz41jSOXk dV0g== X-Gm-Message-State: AIVw113KYV1aFg1Vd63mAsgnf9tKDYBDdc1mg2H0093cOqkplRM1ljVu Jn0ZuSwjWTbITxbNCsUKMJbI3ctmp8tZ X-Received: by 10.200.38.136 with SMTP id 8mr16503968qto.301.1500812647837; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 05:24:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.12.173.253 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 05:24:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.12.173.253 with HTTP; Sun, 23 Jul 2017 05:24:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Michael Schuster Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 14:24:07 +0200 Message-ID: Subject: Re: BSD question To: Anna Hall Cc: freeBSD Mailing List Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.23 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2017 12:24:09 -0000 As I understand it - though I'm no lawyer by any stretch, nor do I speak for anyone - you as the creator of the software get to choose under what license you publish it (search eg for "beer license" to see how much freedom of choice you have). If you use other open source software and incorporate it into your product, you may be allowed to charge for the *product* (again, depending on what license that SW is using), but in most cases you'll have to leave the license of the sources you used unchanged. HTH Michael On 23 Jul 2017 1:54 pm, "Anna Hall" wrote: > Hi > > I have read through all your information on your website, but still have a > question that I am hoping someone can answer for me. > > We currently have open source software with a BSD licence. The changes we > want to make are as follows: > > We still want anyone to access, downlaod, change, adapt the software > however they want. However, when they want to apply it to a commercial > setting, then they need to buy a licence from us. The reason for this is > that we are putting a lot of man-hours into improving the software. > > Is it possible to maintain our BSD licence, but just include a > non-commercial clause/ "if you want to use this in a commercial setting, > please email xxxx for a quote for a licence" > > Thank you > > Kind Regards > > Anna Hall > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions- > unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >