software license

[thesimplecreator]

me and my cousin learned/are learning python and we are developing a notepad/leafpad style text editor.
we both want it to be free to use and distribute,
but he doesnt want it to be open source.
what software license would:
1.make it free to download.
2.free to distribute.
3.Not open source.

thx for any help

[bigtomrodney]

Well if you're not going for an open source licence, you may as well get writing your own licence or looking for a legal team to write it up for you. Generally the only licences that are readymade for you are the likes of the GPL,BSD etc. Unless there is a suitable Creative Commons licence for you?

[jan1024188]

Will you distribute the notepad for all OS or Linux Only?

[wje_lf]

So you're going to allow people to distribute the program freely (free as in beer). But it's not going to be open source. So maybe you just want to prevent people from modifying it. (Otherwise, it would be free as in speech). In that case, just obfuscate the source just before release, and you may not need a license at all. Obfuscation of python code can be done with either a commercial or an open source solution. To find solutions, google this:

python obfuscate

(The freshmeat entry looked attractive, and I wanted to check it out, but freshmeat.net seems down at the moment. Sigh.)

Hope this helps.

[thesimplecreator]

right now we are making it in windows but its going to be for all OSes possible
linux
bsd
windows
mac
etc.

yeh, he just doesn't want people looking at the code.
besides that it doesnt matter what people do with it.