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A comment on Ask HN: How to discourage use of code by totalitarians, militarists or fascists?.

Re:Ask HN: How to discourage use of code by totalitarians, m... by oxinabox on Monday August 02, 2021 @03:55PM (#28041796)
You can't do it with license. It causes more harm than it prevents. See how this played out with the JSON License https://lwn.net/Articles/707510/

We can assume: noone evil took heed -- because they are evil. The good on the other hand stood by their principles that even the evil should have free software; and so didn't use it. Thus causing suffering until it was reimplemented.

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Re:Ask HN: How to discourage use of code by totalitarians, m... by afarrell on Monday August 02, 2021 @04:42PM (#28042346)
I still don’t understand how someone looked at that clause and did anything but giggle. I am always genuinely surprised when I encounter adults who think evil is well-defined enough for these purposes. Genuinely, I think this is a serious gap in my ability to empathize with other engineers and I am not sure what to do about it.
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