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As detaro and kragen have pointed out, any software licence which prohibits military use is by definition neither a Free Software licence (under the FSF definit
by MaxBarraclough 5y ago
As detaro and kragen have pointed out, any software licence which prohibits military use is by definition neither a Free Software licence (under the FSF definition) [0] nor an Open Source licence (under the OSI definition). [1]
[0] https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoMilitary https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.en.html#NoMilitary
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864288 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14864288
- marcus_holmes 5y agoNeither of those things stops the GP from specifying who can use their code, only from classifying their code as FOSS if they do.