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Something along the lines of "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil"? ;) https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/article46/json-license https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/b

• amelius 9y ago
  s/shall/should rather/ This raises some good points, but that was to be expected as licenses are a tricky business. I do think our profession needs more awareness of ethics, and a usage suggestion (rather than an order) in the license of software may be a good start.
• Latty 9y ago
  When I was at IBM the story about IBM legal asking for permission to use JSLint for evil was a classic. The original post appears to be dead, but https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 discusses it.
  • schoen 9y ago
    The Internet Archive has an archived copy of the blog post, which links to the original source at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&feature=player_detailpage#t=2480s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&feature=player_d...
  • jessaustin 9y ago
    Wow 2002 was so long ago. We had no idea. What am I saying? Most of us still have no idea.