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Re:Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region by sillysaurus3 on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:33PM (#14313670)
Did anything ever come of that movement to write an open source software license like "Anyone can use this, except the NSA"? It was a briefly-popular idea in 2013 or so.
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Re:Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region by meddlepal on Wednesday May 10, 2017 @11:54PM (#14313731)
Good luck enforcing that or finding out if the NSA is using your software. It's just a silly idea.
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Re:Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region by sillysaurus3 on Thursday May 11, 2017 @12:01AM (#14313757)
Probably, though it came about after finding out the NSA uses Sinatra, so it's not entirely impossible.
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Re:Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region by jlebar on Thursday May 11, 2017 @03:44AM (#14314434)
OCB has an explicit "no military use" license. It caused huge headaches for e.g. openssl; they had to get a special exemption.

http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm

See also the JSON license.

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Re:Google Cloud Platform Launches Northern Virginia Region by chungy on Thursday May 11, 2017 @01:18AM (#14313993)
It is a contradiction of terms. An open source license cannot exclude any groups, else it is not open source.
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