Rishi Gangoly said on Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 12:10:18AM +0530,:
- What if the competition uses my code and shuts my company down?
How does one respond to the fear?
1) www.gnu.org/philosophy/software-libre-commercial-viability.html 2) www.gnu.org/philosophy/why-copyleft.html 3) www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html 4) www.gnu.org/philosophy/selling.html
If you use a copyleft (not merely `free') license, you can prevent others from misappropriating your code.