Licence my software for free non comercial use need help

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I want to release some software for free home only non-commercial use. I don't want to allow unlimited copying and distribution as i have worked hard on some projects and want my site to be the only distributor (To increase traffic). I also don't want to make my work open source, i am happy for anyone to use my stuff as long as long as they don't profit off it.

Can anyone tell me what i need to put in the software license?

Posted 8-May-12 7:59am

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Updated 9-May-12 16:31pm

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Please check with these lists:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_free_software_licences[^],
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html[^].

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Posted 8-May-12 9:42am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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Ganesan Senthilvel · Accepted Answer · 2012-05-08T08:09:00

In the recent searchings, it has been found that the most popular community software project with a non-commercial license: MAME. It seems someone even created a non-commercial license based on MAME's, due to the problem of people "using CC-BY-NC licenses for software."

Since there is such a dearth of non-commercial licenses out there, I may be stuck using this MAME-like one.

Ref: http://mamedev.org/legal.html#license[^]