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You are correct. I will be re-licensing this project under Creative Commons Selected License
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported
with the commercial use waived and the other conditions imposed.

Currently per GPL in this release you can ignore the extra conditions.

Thank you for pointing that out.

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By the way, you should note that if you forbid commercial use, you are no longer open source. It goes against criteron 6:

http://opensource.org/osd-annotated

Indeed, none of the CC licenses are approved by OSI:

http://opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical

and CC doesn't recommend you use their licenses for software:

http://wiki.creativecommons.org/FAQ#Can_I_use_a_Creative_Commons_license_for_software.3F

I would recommend instead you do something like pick AGPLv3 and sell exceptions, which I think is closer to your original intent:

https://www.fsf.org/blogs/rms/selling-exceptions

In the end, if you want to stick it to big money-grubbing corporations, selling exceptions is the way to go. If they want to grab your code, put it on a server, modify it, offer a public interface, and start charging money for it, that's an AGPL violation and you can make them buy an exception at that point.

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In the end I feel like GPL's are to restrictive on me. They are very hard to understand. I want to allow my source to be used and shared. However if anyone makes money, I would like to also. I dont care about the official "open source" definition. I define it as, you can see the original source and have some rights to do something with it.

If you can come back to me with a license that does that in a simple list of what it allows and forbits.
Also it cant forbid me as the creator from adding conditions to it. like GPLv3.

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Take a look at http://choosealicense.com/ and see if that helps.

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The only way anyone can be making money off your visible code and not let you make money the same way is by closing up your code. If you sell AGPL exceptions, then when they attempt to close up your code this way, you can charge them money.

The AGPL is nice. It means everybody pays: either they give you and everyone else code, or they give you money if you're selling exceptions.

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