On Sun, Mar 08, 2015 at 11:19:10PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 03/08/2015 06:34 PM, Mike Bayer wrote: > > > > > > Ian Wells <ijw.ubu...@cack.org.uk> wrote: > > > >> With apologies for derailing the question, but would you care to tell us > >> what evil you're planning on doing? I find it's always best to be > >> informed about these things. > > > > All of us, every day, do lots of things that someone is going to think is > > evil. From eating meat, to living various kinds of lifestyles, to supporting > > liberal or conservative causes, to just living in a certain country, to > > using Windows or other “non-free” operating systems, to top-posting, makes > > you evil to someone; to lots of people, in fact. This is why a blanket > > statement like “do no evil” is pretty much down to two choices, A. based on > > some arbitrary, undefined notion of “evil” in which case nobody can use the > > software, or B. based on the user’s own subjective view of “evil” which > > means the phrase is just a humorous frill. Maybe authors add this phrase as > > a means to limit the use of their software only to those communities where > > such a statement is patently ridiculous (e.g., not publicly held > > corporations). > > > > but also given that “evil” can be almost anything, I don’t think it’s > > reasonable > > that users would have to report on their intended brand of “evil”. > > tl;dr: Debian considers the "do no evil" license non-free.
[snip] > Anyway, you understood me: please *never* use this Expat/MIT license > with the "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." additional > clause. This is non-free software, which I will *never* be able to > upload to Debian (and Canonical guys will have the same issue). The same is true of Fedora's licensing policies. Code under a license with this clause is not permitted in Fedora. Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| __________________________________________________________________________ OpenStack Development Mailing List (not for usage questions) Unsubscribe: openstack-dev-requ...@lists.openstack.org?subject:unsubscribe http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev