> You are splitting again the wire in four.
> For a source code or a schematic published on the web there 
> is no protection. Once you have published it, is not yours 
> anymore no matter as many GPL notice you may add. Even a half 
> page of GPL claims. Try to understand that once for ever. You 
> have no control for a project you are sharing on the web. 
> Claiming as " forbidden to be used for production" is just a 
> stupid phrase. The only protection you may have is keeping 
> secret the IP and even than some people may write a better IP 
> than you have initially written.

There are four ways to look at this protection issue: practical versus
theroretical, and from the author or from a user/pirate. Vasile's view
is correct (although a bit overstated) for the practical + from the
author look. But when seen from a user it is very reassuring to know
that what you use (and how you use it) is licensed in a way that it
allows you that use, so the discussion is not useless.

Vasile: I got plenty mails from people who wanted to use Jal (my old
Jal) but did not dare to do so because I (mistakenly) put LGPL on the
libraries.

Wouter van Ooijen

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