@ramsey@conservancy
Ah. Mine was less for you and more for others reading your posts; but I guess in a raw sense, even if closed source, there is no physical or natural way to compel anyone not to use any "public code" or "code they can read"
Like if I took away the CLI daemon shell to redis and embedded it into a closed executable, most folks wouldn't know. I could further rename a bunch of symbols and I could likely get away with it... but I'd definitely be sith / dark-side at that point.