Crockford triggered an argument at least as old as the Lutheran reform. The irony is that Crockford's licence is an unintended success in line with Eich's Java

Crockford triggered an argument at least as old as the Lutheran reform. The irony is that Crockford's licence is an unintended success in line with Eich's JavaScript itself. JavaScript, as a Lisp in disguise which survived early standardisation, browser wars, Microsoft's JScript, European bureaucracy (the E in ECMA?), Adobe and Crockford's own jslint, is a success at being something very, very useful. Crockford's "Good, not evil" licence, it could be argued, is a free licence only if the definition of good/evil is a personal one. One of the main issues of Luther's reform is that good and evil are a personal choice [1]. Crockford is succeeding at indirectly making people think of who has the right to tag something as good or evil. [1] At least that's what I remember from school.