Re: Advice on licenses with "funny" amendments

2021-11-04 Thread Daniel Leidert
Am Donnerstag, dem 07.10.2021 um 15:35 -0700 schrieb Walter Landry: > > JSON has a license with similar problems.  It has the addendum > >   The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. Well, the word "shall" can implicate "may", "will", or "must" and has therefor legal implications (similar i

Re: Advice on licenses with "funny" amendments

2021-10-07 Thread Paul Wise
On Thu, Oct 7, 2021 at 10:48 PM Francesco Poli wrote: > What do other debian-legal participants think? While they are fairly obviously worded in plain English like an optional request, since they are part of a legal document, they are supposed to use legal language, and IANAL, so I don't know how

Re: Advice on licenses with "funny" amendments

2021-10-07 Thread John Scott
On Thu, 2021-10-07 at 23:56 +0200, Dominik George wrote: > What does debian-legal say? Could I package the first example for > Debian, and trust that the amendment is a joke? > This project is MIT-licensed, but has a note saying: > "BUT if you become a millionaire using this code, please bought >

Re: Advice on licenses with "funny" amendments

2021-10-07 Thread Walter Landry
Hi Nik, JSON has a license with similar problems. It has the addendum The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil. Debian takes the author at their word, and so it goes into non-free. https://wiki.debian.org/qa.debian.org/jsonevil I think that would have to be the case here as well. Ch

Re: Advice on licenses with "funny" amendments

2021-10-07 Thread Francesco Poli
On Thu, 7 Oct 2021 23:56:57 +0200 Dominik George wrote: > Hi, Hello! > > some times, we (the AlekSIS team) stumble upon upstream maintainers > who consider it funny to add amendments to licenses, or make up fun > licenses on their own. Personally, I think licenses and jokes are best left disti

Advice on licenses with "funny" amendments

2021-10-07 Thread Dominik George
Hi, some times, we (the AlekSIS team) stumble upon upstream maintainers who consider it funny to add amendments to licenses, or make up fun licenses on their own. Here are two examples: https://github.com/codeedu/select2-materialize This project is MIT-licensed, but has a note saying: "BU