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There is a simple solution to this. When you publish open source software, make sure that in your license it says that Goldman Sachs is not allowed to use this

There is a simple solution to this. When you publish open source software, make sure that in your license it says that Goldman Sachs is not allowed to use this code for any purpose whatsoever.

pritambaral 13y ago
Why not throw in a lot of other "evil" entities too. Soon, we'll have jslint's license!
optymizer 13y ago
Rule #5 of an Open Source license: "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons." http://opensource.org/osd-annotated http://opensource.org/osd-annotated
- GhotiFish 13y ago
  There's nothing that stops you from actually putting that clause in your license, just don't call it the GPL or MIT or whatever. "My code is freely licensed open source, Based on GPL, with the addendum that Goldman Sachs can go stick their head in a pig" As I understand it, there is nothing preventing this from happening.
  - davidw 13y ago
    Sure, you can do it. Once you do, though, your code is not open source.
    - ntakasaki 13y ago
      >Sure, you can do it. Once you do, though, your code is not open source. It is surely open source. It's just not Open Source. An important difference because of the capitalization.
      - davidw 13y ago
        If you don't want to deliberately confuse people, you would say "the source code is available" or something like that, because most people take open source to mean this: http://opensource.org/osd http://opensource.org/osd So that even if they're speaking out loud, where one can't see capitalization, everyone knows what they mean.
dfc 13y ago
I am pretty sure this is a violation of one of the four freedoms, namely freedom 0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).
e28eta 13y ago
I wonder if they'd care. Sounds like they don't particularly care about the licenses on the open source code they use, and I doubt you'd find out that they're violating your license.

There is a simple solution to this. When you publish open source software, make sure that in your license it says that Goldman Sachs is not allowed to use this code for any purpose whatsoever.

pritambaral 13y ago

Why not throw in a lot of other "evil" entities too. Soon, we'll have jslint's license!

optymizer 13y ago

Rule #5 of an Open Source license: "The license must not discriminate against any person or group of persons." http://opensource.org/osd-annotated http://opensource.org/osd-annotated

GhotiFish 13y ago
There's nothing that stops you from actually putting that clause in your license, just don't call it the GPL or MIT or whatever. "My code is freely licensed open source, Based on GPL, with the addendum that Goldman Sachs can go stick their head in a pig" As I understand it, there is nothing preventing this from happening.
- davidw 13y ago
  Sure, you can do it. Once you do, though, your code is not open source.
  - ntakasaki 13y ago
    >Sure, you can do it. Once you do, though, your code is not open source. It is surely open source. It's just not Open Source. An important difference because of the capitalization.
    - davidw 13y ago
      If you don't want to deliberately confuse people, you would say "the source code is available" or something like that, because most people take open source to mean this: http://opensource.org/osd http://opensource.org/osd So that even if they're speaking out loud, where one can't see capitalization, everyone knows what they mean.

dfc 13y ago

I am pretty sure this is a violation of one of the four freedoms, namely freedom 0: The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0).

e28eta 13y ago

I wonder if they'd care. Sounds like they don't particularly care about the licenses on the open source code they use, and I doubt you'd find out that they're violating your license.