>The GPL protects you from that. No it doesn't. I can "steal" your GPL code, make lots of private modifications to it and make lots of money from it without v

>The GPL protects you from that. No it doesn't. I can "steal" your GPL code, make lots of private modifications to it and make lots of money from it without violating the licence. All I have to do is run the GPL software on a server rather than distributing a binary to end users. That also happens to be the more common way to release software these days. If GPL developers really cared about their work being stolen or the rights of end users they wouldn't be using the GPL, they would use the AGPL.