This part is hilarious and sad: > The canonical horrible, no good, very bad example of this is the JSON license, an MIT-family license plus “The Software shall

This part is hilarious and sad: > The canonical horrible, no good, very bad example of this is the JSON license, an MIT-family license plus “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.”. This kind of thing might be “very Crockford”. It is definitely a pain in the ass. Maybe the joke was supposed to be on the lawyers. But they laughed all the way to the bank. Indeed they did. It's a good reminder to not pull this kind of “very Crockford” stunt and just use a standard, well understood and accepted license. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not_Evil%22 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Crockford#%22Good,_not... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866