ethical-license

A collection of 2 posts

5 Apr 2018 • 3 min read

JSON and & "Good, not Evil"

The JSON license is apparently infamous in the FOSS community for its inclusion of a moral clause. The license was nearly identical to the classic MIT License, except the one line, The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. This line has persisted in the license since 2002 when

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5 Apr 2018 • 2 min read

Yahoo & Nukes

This is the first in a series of tech licenses and terms that involve moral clauses. Back in 2013, the Yahoo! Desktop Search Software License Agreement contained a fun clause in Section 4, Licensed Uses and Restrictions. While it’s explicitly there for liability reasons, it certainly also has the

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