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FabHax · Sep 6th, 2006, 11:41 PM

Thank you all for your generous opinion. Now I have some more questions.

I am not a lawyer and I find it difficult to understand some of the terms of the licenses.

What I want is this:-

The software should be open source and the license should be one of the OSI Certified Open Source License.
Wherever the program goes, my name with the copyright notice like "Copyright (C) 2006 Smith" must be there.
If possible, I want to prevent others from making a derivative work from my program and distribute. That is, if the modify my program, they can't distribute it further. (I don't generously allow it my program to fork into many distributions like Linux now has so many distros.)
The recepient of the program must distribute the program under the same license.

I am having a difficulty with point no. 3. I am unable to understand which one of the Open Source License would give me that right.

Sep 6th, 2006, 11:41 PM	#9
FabHax Newbie Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 4 Rep Power: 0	Which one gives me the right to point no. 3? Thank you all for your generous opinion. Now I have some more questions. I am not a lawyer and I find it difficult to understand some of the terms of the licenses. What I want is this:- The software should be open source and the license should be one of the OSI Certified Open Source License. Wherever the program goes, my name with the copyright notice like "Copyright (C) 2006 Smith" must be there. If possible, I want to prevent others from making a derivative work from my program and distribute. That is, if the modify my program, they can't distribute it further. (I don't generously allow it my program to fork into many distributions like Linux now has so many distros.) The recepient of the program must distribute the program under the same license. I am having a difficulty with point no. 3. I am unable to understand which one of the Open Source License would give me that right.