On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:52:02AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> BTW, I spended another thought on this license and that it is definitely
> not applicable: Assume someone would plan a murder using software XY
> which is forbidden to use for evil. This murder in spe would read the
> license and think: Uhm, I'm not allowed to use this software legally so
> I will sit down, delay my plan and will rewrite this software to finally
> beeing able to do this murder... I'd call the attempt of this license
> something of the kind "Trying to make the world a better place but
> fail." The evil users will simply not care and others end up with
> non-free software. I'd love to see a re-evaluation of this kind of
> licenses.
This argument does not help because it intrinsically assumes
that one can know beforehand what's good and what's evil.
Assume I would license GNUmed in a way as to say:
GPL except you are not allowed to use it to track the
health of prison inmates.
Now what ?
Karsten
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