Patrick <[email protected]> wrote .. > I have a for profit scientific instrument control application
So your primary purpose is profit? http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Commercial Free software can also be a for-profit activity. > competitors will just fork the code and roll it into proprietary software. You should check some of your assumptions. The GPL is designed to not allow that. See: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#GPLInProprietarySystem > Much of the industry is now overseas ... effectively nullifying the topic of > licenses Another place to check your assumptions: Copyright is recognized pretty much worldwide.
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