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March 4th, 2006, 08:25 PM

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Open source and copyrights that are not gnu

Scenerio:

Someone uses PHP to make a program. Lets say a moblog program. Then makes it publicly available for download on their website. They offer these stipulations:

Free to download, modify, redistribute, hack for personal use.

Cannot profit in any way shape or form (in part or in whole).

My question is: I don't necessarily want to profit, but I do want to make it a community moblog, not just private, and possibly at some point raise advertising dollars to continue the progress of my site and software. What are my options and what are the laws regarding rewriting the software? Like changing 50% of it. Or changing the names of the variable/folders/files, etc? It does not say it is GNU. Thanks!

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