Comment by aaron695

Closed source would fix this.

GPL would not (CC licenses is not appropriate to code)

Please ~ MIT or Close Source projects. Don't GPL, GPL is for assholes and the antithesis of free code.

They could try creating a strong brand and using copyright and trademarks.

But the author says the post was just a needed rant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39414296