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If you don’t want people to use your code, consider making your repos private.

What if you want people to use your code, but not for proprietary software?

Impossible. As soon as you show it to anyone there is a chance they will use something they learned in their proprietary software, likely unknowingly.

And if that happens, I have the right to sue.

GPL?

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