[thelist] [OT] how to grant a commercial license.

[Kasimir K]

VOLKAN ÖZÇELI.K scribeva in 2005-11-29 07:45:
> As you may have known, I have two (uncommercially free / creative
> commons uncommercial share alike) products 
...
> Nowadays I receive several requests from people asking whether they
> may use those products in a commercial environment and if so how.

Just to make clear: even if you allow your products to be used in 
commercial environment, you are not charging for them?

> So I am in need of writing a commercial license (or licenses).

If you are giving them away for free, why don't your relase them under 
some open source license?

http://www.fsf.org/licensing

And if you want to quickly add something there, have a look how others 
are licensing, for example Sam Stephenson's prototype
http://dev.conio.net/repos/prototype/
The license there has three parts:
- copyright (claim that, you are not giving your copyright away)
- grant permission for whoever to use the software however they want
- disclaimer of any responsibility

> After this much introduction my questions are:

Oops, I answered before questions :-)

.k