Filippo Possenti wrote:
My desire is to allow free non-commercial use of this extension. For commercial use, I want to be notified so that I can decide if allow or deny this right. The purpose is to allow the diffusion of the extension without letting sly people to take undue advantages from it.
What do you think of the GPL? While it would allow commercial use without your permission, it would require them to hand over their source code. That's usually enough to stop companies from taking undue advantage of your work.
However, I'd like to be informed by people before they start a new project. This with the purpose of talking to this people and finding a solution that will not cause the project to split in different projects with the same final purpose.
That's a laudable goal. I'm not aware of a current license that calls for this, but you could add this requirement to an existing license. However, I think you would need to be sure that the only requirement is that notice be sent to a certain address, either physical or e'mail. If you require that you approve of the new project, that would be contrary to a basic principle of open source: derived works do not require the explicit permission of the original author, just conformance with a predefined set of terms.
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