From: Eric Schwartz <emschwar@...>
Date: 2003-07-10T05:14:50+09:00
Subject: Re: My brief and torrid affair with Ruby.

Paul Prescod <paul@prescod.net> writes:
> Hiding or not hiding the code is irrelevant. The GPL allows customers to 
> redistribute your code which means that your customers can easily become 
> your competitors, selling your code at a discount or even giving it away 
> for free on their website. You could only "compete" by giving away the 
> software yourself and shifting to a service model which is a pretty 
> significant change in business model!

Not at all; as copyright owner, you still have the right to license
your code under any other terms you care to.  You could offer it with
proprietary-friendly terms (as long as you don't use GPL components),
and make money that way.

-=Eric
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