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by cruppstahl 4423 days ago
Earlier versions used GPL and dual-licensing, and so far the customers are startups and smaller companies, not big enterprises.

I am pretty sure that the GPL version was used a lot in commercial products; that was one of the reasons why I chose to switch to APL and offer a closed source add on.

But if i weight piracy against the big effort that i have in creating 30day trials i tend to say that i don't care that much about piracy...

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By that last sentence it sounds like you should just sell it as non-obfuscated source. It'll probably leak at some point if there's demand for it by pirates but nobody legitimate is going to use a stolen library without a license. A money back guarantee is probably a good idea, would it be cheaper to just do that as a payment from you to them than them doing a chargeback?
I'm not sure what is cheaper, i'll figure it out. Thanks for your comment!