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> I mean they won't lose anything either by doing that, right?

Not directly, but if someone were to use some of that code that a company put significant resources into developing, in a product that made someone else money, most companies would probably have a hard time mentally justifying that.



So license it as GPL, so that someone else would also have to make their source code public.




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