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Re:Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all ... by gpcz on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @07:54AM (#6089425)
Clause 6 of the Open Source Definition ( http://opensource.org/osd-annotated ) states that open source software licenses cannot discriminate against fields of endeavor. That is, you can't state in your license that an abortion clinic / anti-abortion activists can't use the software and still call it open source.
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Re:Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all ... by declan on Tuesday July 23, 2013 @01:42PM (#6091622)
Right. Because "open source" no longer fits, you'd need a new name for software released under the anti-surveillance license. "Freedom Software" instead of "Free Software" has a nice ring to it. :)
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