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Using the GPL as a Dual-Licensing Monopolistic Haven

Can a company control the use of their software intellectual property more completely if they release it under the open-source GNU General Public License (GPL)? I hadn’t really thought about it before, but while researching the OSS position of MySql I read an interesting post on Michael Meeks’ log that alludes to something of this [...]
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