[License-discuss] Oracle Java Mission Control (JMC) became open-source May 2018, I have some license questions.

[John Cowan]

On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 12:24 PM, Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne at nexb.com>
wrote:


> - JSON
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> ... which is the only problematic item to me: this is not a bona-fide
> open source license because of this clause:
> "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil."
>
> This is something both difficult to enforce and comply with and has
> been widely debated in the past when it was introduced.
>

SInce nobody believes that they themselves are in the service of Evil,
I say it's unenforceable and meaningless, mere flatus vocis.

I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice, but it's not
exactly the unauthorized practice of law either.

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John Cowan          http://vrici.lojban.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
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