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BSD is used exactly because you can hide your improvements from others. You can hide the code of your proprietary extensions.

If you choose to, you can give or take away my freedom to further improve these extensions. No different from closed source.

On the other hand if what you are targeting are "companies" that take your code and never give back, then BSD is a fine choice.



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