appdb license choices unclear

Dan Kegel dank at kegel.com
Sat Dec 29 19:04:16 CST 2007


Has anybody else been confused by this?
When submitting an app to the appdb, I'm often flummoxed
by what to put in the license field.  I'm usually
looking for something that means
"Closed source, free to download, but not redistributable"
(like e.g. http://labs.adobe.com/misc/terms_of_use.html )
but the only choices
are: Retail, Open Source, Freeware, Demo, Shareware.

"Freeware" might be the closest of the bunch, but it implies GPL or
at least the ability to redistribute binaries
(i.e. the other meaning of the word Free).

Is there a way to make this clearer?   Maybe "nonredistributable freeware"?
- Dan



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