Re: question about Good/Evil in a license
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 12:27 AM, Antonio Radici <antonio@dyne.org> wrote:
> the following is a license of a file called tools/jsmin.py included in
> the version of libv8 distributed by Google, the notice that "the
> software shall be used for Good, not Evil" tells me that this is a
> non-free license, can you confirm this?
Trivially non-free (DFSG #6). Also, the word "evil" is far too
subjective to be meaningful in a license.
That said, there are many mentions of this phrase in the archive already:
http://walrus.rave.org/source/search?q=%22shall+be+used+for+Good%2C+not+Evil%22&defs=&refs=&path=&hist=
Perhaps you could ask the ftpmasters about this and file RC bugs if appropriate?
There are some replacements for jsmin:
http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/compressor/
http://dean.edwards.name/download/#packer
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