Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin

Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by blasdel on Saturday December 19, 2009 @01:57AM (#1004566)

JSMin's license is simply MIT + this added clause:

  The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

Google Code takes a hard stance against license proliferation, and only allows the ones on their minimized list, period.

I think Hipp took a better approach with Sqlite -- the code is in the public domain, and instead of a license the code comes with headers containing this simple admonition/blessing:

  May you do good and not evil
  May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
  May you share freely, never taking more than you give.

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Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by alextgordon on Saturday December 19, 2009 @10:37AM (#1004822)

Richard Hipp actually said that he wished he hadn't released SQLite into the public domain. Apparently it becomes a headache when the code is used in countries that don't have the same implementation of the public domain as the US (around 16 minutes in: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/25/ ).

I think that if you want to appease legal departments, your best bet is a well known licence, written by lawyers (eg Apache 2.0).

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Re:Etherpad includes banned (on Google code) software JSMin by blasdel on Saturday December 19, 2009 @08:28PM (#1005541)

Yes, Moral Rights are even more of a pain in the ass than the AGPL could ever hope to be.

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