The JSON License famously includes a provision stating that “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”. This article explores why such provisions are not useful or meaningful in the greater software licensing conversation. “Evil” is largely part of the software licensing conversation today because of a much earlier line drawn in the sand by open source software licensing proponents demanding that compliant licenses permit use for “Evil” (and consequently, placing a hard restriction on the individual freedom to refuse).
  • This2ShallPass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    This argument in this article is poor. An analogy would be:

    “Because donating free food to the poor might feed future criminals, we should no longer provide free food.”