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On 2015-02-04 09:38, Pascal Obry wrote:
> Le mercredi 04 février 2015 à 08:00 +0000, Mark Carroll a écrit : 
>> No, it also means that those customers can pass it on to anyone else,
>> modify and resell it or give it away, whatever. The GPL is about far
>> more than just making the source available to customers.
> 
> And? Do we have a single example of this happening?
> 
> That's just fear and doubt to me. 

And that is powerful.
I've tried to convince my bosses that we should
deploy/sell on Linux. And use GNAT GPL.
But no go, due to the _possibility_
that our competitors may see the source.

Of course, in reality this is nonsense.
We ship the code to our customers anyway,
but they (managers that is) _feel_ confident that
no one is allowed to change/re-distribute the code but us.

I _highly_ doubt that anyone would dissect our code,
and take business advantage of it.

However, a real threat (to our business) would be ex-co-workers,
that can sell consultant hours, and do changes to the code.

So it is partly fear and doubt, but also some more


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Björn