Re: Government License

Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:07:07 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.apache.community
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Jul 2, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote:

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>=20
>=20
> On Wed, Jul 2, 2014 at 12:24 AM, David Welton <[email protected]> =
wrote:
> > Closest I've seen in the 'free' area is licensing that forbids =
military
> > uses.
>=20
> Which is, once again, neither 'free software' nor open source because
> it goes against the definition.  You can't have it both ways: you
> can't exclude people from using it because they are military, gay,
> Illinois nazis, Alaskan women, Liechtensteiners or whatever else you
> happen to dislike.
>=20
> At risk of sounding flippant; the original poster didn't indicate he =
wanted a license that would be compatible with the definitions of free =
software or open source :)
>=20

True, but it was posted on an Apache community list, which kind
of implies it :)