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LinuxWorld: Show Me the License

This article at LinuxWorld is about profitable open source software development companies and dual licensing.
If the software you're considering is ... an application or a software ingredient, then the GPL may be bad for your business.

... However, the BSD license would also allow our customers or any developer to take our code and create their own products without our permission or payment. We would create our own competition. We decided to begin the business with a dual-license strategy.

Read the article at LinuxWorld.com.

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