Comment on Ask HN: Software licensing excluding military use?parentComments−detaro9yThis was the case for JSON and JSLint, with a clause of "This Software shall be used for Good, not Evil". Famously, IBM requested (and got) an exception from this.−martin-adams9yYep, the exception was in the form of:“I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.”IBM's response:“Thanks very much, Douglas!”−philbarr9yJust in case anyone else hadn't heard of that and wants to look it up:https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866
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This was the case for JSON and JSLint, with a clause of "This Software shall be used for Good, not Evil". Famously, IBM requested (and got) an exception from this.
Yep, the exception was in the form of:
“I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.”
IBM's response:
“Thanks very much, Douglas!”
Just in case anyone else hadn't heard of that and wants to look it up:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5138866