”Also about once a year, I get a letter from a lawyer, every year a different lawyer, at a company–I don’t want to embarrass the company by saying their name, so I’ll just say their initials: IBM–saying that they want to use something I wrote,” he said. ”They want to use something that I wrote in something that they wrote, and they were pretty sure they weren’t going to use it for evil, but they couldn’t say for sure about their customers. So could I give them a special license for that? Of course. So I wrote back… ‘I give permission for IBM, its customers, partners, and minions, to use JSLint for evil.'”
Varför frågar IBMs advokater något sådant här? Jo en liten mening i Douglas Crockfords variation av MITs open source avtal:
”The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.”
Denna mening har tydligen skapat en hel del problem. Bland annat kan inte Google hosta kod som är skriven under detta open source avtal. För de är onda…? De påstår att det beror på avtalet gör att koden inte kan anses vara helt gratis eftersom det finns detta extra krav. Läs hela storyn här.
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