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"it's significant that the NSA's massive XKeyscore program runs on a Linux cluster." Is there an option in Creative Commons or GPL to exclude government use?
by joetek 13y ago
"it's significant that the NSA's massive XKeyscore program runs on a Linux cluster."
Is there an option in Creative Commons or GPL to exclude government use?
- TeMPOraL 13y agoIf they modified GPL code, maybe they can be sued to release changes.
- dragonwriter 13y agoThe only action possible against the federal government for copyright violation is an action in the Court of Federal Claims to recover money damages. [1] [1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1498 http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/28/1498
- mhurron 13y agoSuch an exclusion would be incompatible with the GPL. There are other licenses that do have such an exclusion.
- aylons 13y agoNo, and at least on the GPL, this is by principle. Free software, as proposed by the FSF, is agnostic to these issues by design.
- tomjen3 13y agoNo, and that is one of the reason GPLs in an immoral license.