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If a customer used your code for evil, that means they broke the law, not you.

Yes, no-one's suggesting that the software developer is guilty of what ever the code does. But if you grab JSLint and bundle it with your software, that person X uses for evil, then person X is guilty of whatever they did, and you might be guilty of copyright infringement.

"The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." is a separate clause in license, permission for distribution is granted above it. So only person who use software for evil is violator of license.

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