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Re:Defending your app from copies and clones by SAI_Peregrinus on Friday February 23, 2018 @03:22PM (#16449209)
That's where copyleft (GPL-style) is better than BSD-style. Competitors can copy your product, but you can copy back. You presumably have some first-mover advantage in an existing userbase, so you can improve your product and retain those users + gain more. If you went with a BSD license and the competitor stayed closed you'd be up the creek.
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Re:Defending your app from copies and clones by criddell on Friday February 23, 2018 @05:26PM (#16450168)
That's how it's supposed to work, but what are you going to do when a start up on the other side of the planet takes your GPL code to build something great but doesn't share their changes?
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