By open source distribution you are expressing optimism
about human nature, and your developer community will
mostly justify that optimism. The best approach for the
few who disappoint you is to simply ignore them.
I agree. When I suggested a "no incompatible versions" clause in the license, I wasn't thinking in terms of "then you can fight and win lots of court cases!"; Linus Torvalds, Guido van Rossum et al haven't had to do that after all. I think that, as in the case of the GPL, most people would respect the terms of the license without having to be coerced; and I agree that the first line of defense against incompatible forking is to design the architecture such that incompatible forks aren't needed.
(This is different from the question of "what if [insert favorite bad guys] use it for nefarious purposes". I still think the only way to guarantee that doesn't happen is to never let any copies of the code out of your grasp.)
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