Modifying Open Source Licenses

[Scott Elcomb]

On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 5:53 PM, Richard Weait <richard-gNTHUr35LhcAvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Are you saying that it appears that not-nice people are using your
> software in their activities of being not-nice.  And are you saying that
> you don't want to them to use your software for doing not-nice things,
> and not-nice related things?

For the first part I cannot say definitively - only that resources
identified by the referring website are "not-nice."  For the second,
yes.  However...

> Freedom Zero - is the right to run the program for any purpose.  So
> restricting use to nice things only, suggests that your new license
> won't be compatible with Free licenses.

For me Freedom Zero has been a fundamental belief for a long time.  I
have other humanitarian beliefs that I now find in partial conflict
and wish to resolve.

Anything but easy I know, but that's why I'm asking.  Thanks for your
thoughts, they're most appreciated.

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  Scott Elcomb
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