OpenSource may not disallow it

[Daniil Kulchenko]

HDE,

Well, what you said was slightly hard to understand, but from I made out of
it, you are asking if you can disallow a specific entity from the freedoms
given by an open source license. When you release a program under your open
source license, you don't surrender the copyright to the software. It is
still yours, you can do whatever you want with it, just like you would if
you had not specified a license. When you release a program under an open
source license, it is like giving permission for the public to share some of
those copyrights with you. If you are talking about adding a clause in a
license (most licenses do not allow you to do so) about specific entities,
the license does not follow the OSD anymore. And about your last point: just
because a license does not follow the OSD does not mean it does not protect
you. It just means it does not follow the principles outlined by the OSI,
but whether the license protects you, the developer, is dependent on the
license.

Regards,
Daniil.

2009/3/20 HDE Weird <hde2008 at mail.ru>

> Thank you for your explanation. And, if I may ask you, when I probably fear
> that somebody uses the program I develop against me, to make some large evil
> against me, I may not disallow it him or her as long as the program is under
> an OpenSource license, right? And that means an OpenSource license, as it
> has to be according to the OSD and what there is explicitly written in the
> OSD (http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php), as it is hard to
> argue with something which is not explicitly written somewhere, may not give
> developers who are using this OpenSource license for programs they develop
> any protection, right?
>
> HDE
>
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