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Did anything ever come of that movement to write an open source software license like "Anyone can use this, except the NSA"? It was a briefly-popular idea in 20
by sillysaurus3 10y ago
Did anything ever come of that movement to write an open source software license like "Anyone can use this, except the NSA"? It was a briefly-popular idea in 2013 or so.
- meddlepal 10y agoGood luck enforcing that or finding out if the NSA is using your software. It's just a silly idea.
- sillysaurus3 10y agoProbably, though it came about after finding out the NSA uses Sinatra, so it's not entirely impossible.
- chungy 10y agoIt is a contradiction of terms. An open source license cannot exclude any groups, else it is not open source.
- jlebar 10y agoOCB has an explicit "no military use" license. It caused huge headaches for e.g. openssl; they had to get a special exemption. http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm http://web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/ocb/license.htm See also the JSON license.