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Pretty much. The problem is how you define "good" and "evil"? Can the US military use this software? Can a church that prints a document about "traditional marr
by rmc 12y ago
Pretty much. The problem is how you define "good" and "evil"? Can the US military use this software? Can a church that prints a document about "traditional marriage" use this software? Can an anti-fascist group use it to organise physical confrontation with far right groups? What does evil mean? You'll need to ask a judge.
- cbd1984 12y agoAnd the worst part is, the developer will likely refuse to see that there is, or ever could be, a problem. "It's evil, fercryingoutloud! Don't do evil! Everyone knows what evil is!" And it gets used, and that clause sits there, like a hidden dog turd, waiting for someone to step in the wrong spot, and all of a sudden the developer and their minions are up in arms about the user and their minions, who are so obviously evil that there shouldn't even be a discussion. Because it's evil, and evil is self-evident. Except it isn't. It really, really isn't.
- detaro 12y agoNah, he knows that this is problematic. See link posted by evacchi, he gives out additional licenses to companies that ask. It's highly annoying for all open-source projects of course, since they have to keep an extra license on just these few files. So they can't combine it with GPL, ...