Re: Government License
Jim Jagielski <[email protected]> Mon, 14 Jul 2014 10:07:07 -0400
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On Jul 2, 2014, at 10:05 PM, Henri Yandell <[email protected]> wrote: >=20 >=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 :)