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		droz on May 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why you should build an open-source startup by limitation, I was thinking in terms of the number of instances of that code out in the wild.

DarkShikari on May 20, 2011 [–]

Under the GPL, the number of instances of that library, when linked to and distributed as part of a proprietary application, is limited to "zero".

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