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yeah, this same loophole can be used to determine who's definition of: "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense" etc ... in other words, if
by dantheman 16y ago
yeah, this same loophole can be used to determine who's definition of: "use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense" etc
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in other words, if we allow people to arbitrarily decide what a word means in a license then the license means nothing..
- hugh3 16y agoThe difference being that judges are entirely happy to make precedent-setting rulings on what "use, copy, modify" et cetera mean. I don't think any judge would be willing to rule on whether a particular use of the software counts as "evil". Even if they're presented with a case where someone is using the software in an unambiguously evil way (like, I dunno, kidnapping small children to use as sex slaves) then they probably still won't rule on that, because that creates a precedent that a judge can rule on whether something is good or evil, creating difficult situations for future judges.