Are there any widely used non-commercial software licenses?

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Published on 2010-04-09T13:28:39Z Indexed on 2010/04/09 21:43 UTC
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I'm am looking into releasing the sourcecode for a project for non-commercial use. GPL and similar licenses are not non-commercial, but I don't want end up competing against software I wrote, so I can't use them.

Are there non-commercial software licenses? Preferably some that are at least somewhat known.

For know I thinking to use Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0. But Creative Commons don't recommend using their licenses for software, but using software specific licenses instead.

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