non-military use license

Michael Poole mdpoole at troilus.org
Thu Jan 11 16:37:29 UTC 2007


gilemon writes:

> Hi License Discussers,
>
> I want to start a project on Sourceforge; a cognitive framework already used
> in robotics. We have been already working a lot on this project but my
> partners have concerns about the potential misuse of their sources. 
>
> That's the reason why I'd like to discuss the option on using a license that
> could protect the source code from being used by the military industry. 

In general, software licenses may contain restrictions such as this.
These licenses violate OSD #6, which means they are not open source
licenses.

Michael Poole



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