I don't recognize the text of this license in a piece of software I need to package as a dependency. The license listed on PyPi is "Freeware" which doesn't seem right (and isn't a valid option anyway) but the actual license text looks more permissive, except for the bit about "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." That clause looks like it might cause us some trouble...
Can I get a legal opinion? (The complete sources of the utility are attached, including the license text in question).
I'm also going to contact upstream to see if I can get a license clarification.
"SG" == Stephen Gallagher stephen@gallagherhome.com writes:
SG> [...] except for the bit about "The Software shall be used for Good, SG> not Evil."
Last time that came up, the licenses was ruled not free due to a field of use restriction.
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/legal/2009-December/001027.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=455507
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Hi,
I don't recognize the text of this license in a piece of software I need to package as a dependency. The license listed on PyPi is "Freeware" which doesn't seem right (and isn't a valid option anyway) but the actual license text looks more permissive, except for the bit about "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." That clause looks like it might cause us some trouble...
This is "JSON License" and it is listed on the licensing page [1]. It is neither free software nor open source license and as such it cannot be used in Fedora.
On 08/07/2012 07:38 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
I don't recognize the text of this license in a piece of software I need to package as a dependency. The license listed on PyPi is "Freeware" which doesn't seem right (and isn't a valid option anyway) but the actual license text looks more permissive, except for the bit about "The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil." That clause looks like it might cause us some trouble...
Can I get a legal opinion? (The complete sources of the utility are attached, including the license text in question).
I'm also going to contact upstream to see if I can get a license clarification.
As several other people have noted, this is the infamous jsmin license. The upstream jsmin author takes a perverse pleasure in people ramming headfirst into this nonsensical clause, and has repeatedly stated that he will not remove it or reword it in such a way to resolve the issues it causes.
http://wonko.com/post/jsmin-isnt-welcome-on-google-code has some of the backstory.
~tom
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