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Re:US military UAVs migrate to Linux by ineedtosleep on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @10:10PM (#7708266)
It would go against their definition of "free software"[1]:

    A program is free software if the program's users have the four essential freedoms:
        The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
Re:US military UAVs migrate to Linux by rectangletangle on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:35PM (#7708484)
Yeah, but killing people also goes against freedom.
Re:US military UAVs migrate to Linux by hueving on Wednesday May 07, 2014 @03:20AM (#7708994)
The license doesn't say it must be used to promote freedom. It just says the users must have certain freedoms. Those are two very different things.
Re:US military UAVs migrate to Linux by seanmcdirmid on Tuesday May 06, 2014 @11:52PM (#7708531)
To be fair, there have been legitimate freedom fighters whose battles would be considered just by many of us even if blood was spilled.

I'm not sure how de-arming would help the US right now, but I understand that there are a lot who would argue that the US has too many weapons (as opposed to having any at all).