[License-discuss] License which requires watermarking? (Attribution Provision)

[Ken Arromdee]

On Tue, 1 Jan 2013, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
>> Some people use ordinary GPL on libraries with the intent of crippling
>> competing commercial reuse (since any competitors have to release
>> their source and competitors wouldn't want to do that).
>
> Really? That's not wise.
>
> How would the choice of license affect the *legal* determination of whether
> the resulting work is or is not a derivative work for which source code must
> be disclosed?

The choice of license affects whether source code must be disclosed at all.
If the library was under the LGPL, the competitor would not have to provide
source.