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> When you choose a license, you should choose correctly for what you want to have happen. Would it outrage you for someone else to take your code, put a pretty GUI on top, sell it, and make millions while you make nothing? Well then, you shouldn't use a BSD license. By contrast you shouldn't use the GPL if your response would be, "Bully for them, I had fun and they made the world better."

BSD or GPL equally won't get you a dime, this example is flawed. The difference is that with GPL they must redistribute whatever modification they did (unless they are providing a "service", then you had to protect the code with AGPL).




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