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JSMin's license is simply MIT + this added clause: The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. Google Code takes a hard stance against license proliferat
by blasdel 17y ago
JSMin's license is simply MIT + this added clause:
The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
Google Code takes a hard stance against license proliferation, and only allows the ones on their minimized list, period.
I think Hipp took a better approach with Sqlite -- the code is in the public domain, and instead of a license the code comes with headers containing this simple admonition/blessing:
May you do good and not evil
May you find forgiveness for yourself and forgive others
May you share freely, never taking more than you give.
- alextgordon 17y agoRichard Hipp actually said that he wished he hadn't released SQLite into the public domain. Apparently it becomes a headache when the code is used in countries that don't have the same implementation of the public domain as the US (around 16 minutes in: http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/25/ http://www.viddler.com/explore/rentzsch/videos/25/ ). I think that if you want to appease legal departments, your best bet is a well known licence, written by lawyers (eg Apache 2.0).
- blasdel 17y agoYes, Moral Rights are even more of a pain in the ass than the AGPL could ever hope to be.