code that aids totalitarians like Putin and the North Koreans has
This is false. Putin is not afraid of shining a very bright radar into the sky to know when missiles are about to hit them. That is the standard and reliable way to go about this.
Have you heard about the “woodpecker” signal? It was the transmission of a giant over-the-horizon early warning radar system. It is now defunct, has been replaced by more modern systems, but when it was operational you could receive it basically anywhere on Earth. That is the scale sovereigns play on.
Only people who don’t have the backing of a sovereign state need to go about detecting launches in this circumspect method.
Some domain specific knowledge was meant to be esoteric
Yes. But this is not that.
there are a variety of better licenses such as CC-non-commercial that allow peaceful uses of the code without allowing it to be used by literally anyone on the planet
Are you kidding me? :) In the top of your comment you worry, wrongly, about Kim and Putin using the given code. And your suggested solution is to release it under a different licence? :) You think they would care about that?
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This is false. Putin is not afraid of shining a very bright radar into the sky to know when missiles are about to hit them. That is the standard and reliable way to go about this.
Have you heard about the “woodpecker” signal? It was the transmission of a giant over-the-horizon early warning radar system. It is now defunct, has been replaced by more modern systems, but when it was operational you could receive it basically anywhere on Earth. That is the scale sovereigns play on.
Only people who don’t have the backing of a sovereign state need to go about detecting launches in this circumspect method.
Yes. But this is not that.
Are you kidding me? :) In the top of your comment you worry, wrongly, about Kim and Putin using the given code. And your suggested solution is to release it under a different licence? :) You think they would care about that?