Re:Ask HN: What if Open Source Licenses Forbade Broad Survei...
by mindcrime on Friday June 14, 2013 @12:12PM
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It annoys me to see F/L/OSS projects like Linux and Hadoop used for ends like "NSA surveillance" but I don't like the idea of adding "Fields of Endeavor" restrictions to OSS licenses. In fact, if you go by the OSD[1], "Fields of Endeavor" restrictions are specifically not allowed. Of course, not everyone agrees with the OSD, but still...
And anyway, how would you enforce this against a group like the NSA? At the end of the day, adding something like this would just make licenses longer and more complicated, and would probably have no impact on surveillance.
And anyway, how would you enforce this against a group like the NSA? At the end of the day, adding something like this would just make licenses longer and more complicated, and would probably have no impact on surveillance.
[1]: http://opensource.org/osd-annotated