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Comment on Ask HN: Can I exclude Trump supporters in my open source license?

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The problem is defining "supporter" in legal terms. It's probably easy to exclude the Trump Organization itself, but what about those who do business with them? You could exclude people who directly contributed to Trump's campaign, but does one such person in a company bar use by the entire company? It quickly becomes a bit of a quagmire.

Possible alternative: require preservation of a copyright notice which (among all the usual stuff) condemns Trump and his policies. It gives voice to your protest, without the definitional hassles that enforcing a restriction would have.

Great!!! I love your possible alternative suggestion.

Perhaps something along the lines of:

This ReadMe document and/or the following statement may not be removed from this project or any works that derive from it:

The creator of PropertyWebBuilder is opposed to the racist statements made by Donald Trump during his presidential campaign of 2016.

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