Antiwar License

Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob at tisbrasil.com.br
Mon Mar 3 06:02:53 UTC 2003


On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 09:52:21PM -0800, Sergey Goldgaber wrote:
> --- Rodrigo Barbosa <rodrigob at tisbrasil.com.br> wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 02, 2003 at 08:19:12PM -0800, Sergey Goldgaber wrote:
> > >  Could a fee then be charged for military use or use by the
> > Department
> > > of Defense, or its contractors?  And, if so, is there any provision
> > in
> > > the OSD against charging them, say, 100 times the GDP of the United
> > > States Government for such use?  Could such a license achieve OSI
> > > Certification?
> > 
> > You would be discriminating a group. So no, you would not get it
> > OSI certified.
> 
> But isn't this precisely what people do when they release an
> application free of charge to individuals and educational institutions,
> while charging corporations?

Yes. But those licenses are not OSI approved.

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