Re: [libreplanet-discuss] DVD-PL license feedback

[Jason Self]

Patrick <patrick@spellingbeewinnars.org> wrote ..
> I have a for profit scientific instrument control application

So your primary purpose is profit?

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial

Free software can also be a for-profit activity.

> competitors will just fork the code and roll it into proprietary software.

You should check some of your assumptions. The GPL is designed to not allow 
that. See:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem

> Much of the industry is now overseas ... effectively nullifying the topic of 
> licenses

Another place to check your assumptions: Copyright is recognized pretty much 
worldwide.

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