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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by hsivonen on Friday June 22, 2018 @04:59AM (#17372535)
By definition, a license that has Field of Use restrictions is not an Open Source license.

Creative Commons NonCommercial licenses, for example, are neither Open Source nor Free Software licenses.

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Re:Google Engineers Refused to Build Security Tool to Win Mi... by s73v3r_ on Friday June 22, 2018 @01:15PM (#17375648)
I imagine that someone who wants to prevent use of their work by the military would not be concerned over whether something is technically not open source or not.
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