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The JSON License

Name: rms 2012-08-19 21:15

This is the license of the original implementation of the JSON data interchange format. This license uses the Expat license as a base, but adds a clause mandating: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, the license is nonfree.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-20 20:56

cautious parties in the industry won't touch vague license terms like this
That's because the industry is evil.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-20 21:39

>>3
That's good if you want to keep your software free but out of ENTERPRISE. Too bad Stallman didn't think of it.

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-20 23:52

>>4
XML is fucking shit, back to /r/java please

Name: Anonymous 2012-08-21 7:20

>>6,7
IBM explicitly asked for a special license for them, their lawyers said that they (IBM) weren't going to use it for evil but some of their clients might.

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