Re:Ask HN: Can I exclude Trump supporters in my open source ...
by icomefromreddit on Saturday December 24, 2016 @04:33PM
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It would not be an free software.
> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all
> (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it,
> including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby
> mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
> The JSON License
>
> This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data
> interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but
> adds a clause mandating:βThe Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.β
> This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The
> restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus,
> the license is nonfree.
Various Licenses and Comments about Them (https://www.gnu.org/licenses/license-list.en.html)
> But software which OpenBSD uses and redistributes must be free to all > (be they people or companies), for any purpose they wish to use it, > including modification, use, peeing on, or even integration into baby > mulching machines or atomic bombs to be dropped on Australia.
> The JSON License > > This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data > interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but > adds a clause mandating:βThe Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.β > This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The > restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, > the license is nonfree. Also: json-evil-license (https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil)