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Ian Wells <ijw.ubuntu at cack.org.uk> wrote:

> With apologies for derailing the question, but would you care to tell us what evil you're planning on doing?  I find it's always best to be informed about these things.

All of us, every day, do lots of things that someone is going to think is
evil. From eating meat, to living various kinds of lifestyles, to supporting
liberal or conservative causes, to just living in a certain country, to
using Windows or other “non-free” operating systems, to top-posting, makes
you evil to someone; to lots of people, in fact. This is why a blanket
statement like “do no evil” is pretty much down to two choices, A. based on
some arbitrary, undefined notion of “evil” in which case nobody can use the
software, or B. based on the user’s own subjective view of “evil” which
means the phrase is just a humorous frill. Maybe authors add this phrase as
a means to limit the use of their software only to those communities where
such a statement is patently ridiculous (e.g., not publicly held
corporations).

but also given that “evil” can be almost anything, I don’t think it’s reasonable
that users would have to report on their intended brand of “evil”.


> -- 
> Ian.
> 
> (Why yes, it *is* a Saturday morning.)
> 
> On 6 March 2015 at 12:23, Michael Krotscheck <krotscheck at gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya!
> 
> So, a while ago Horizon pulled in JSHint to do javascript linting, which is awesome, but has a rather obnoxious "Do no evil" licence in the codebase: https://github.com/jshint/jshint/blob/master/src/jshint.js
> 
> StoryBoard had the same issue, and I've recently replaced JSHint with ESlint for just that reason, but I'm not certain it matters as far as OpenStack license compatibility. I'm personally of the opinion that tools used != code shipped, but I am neither a lawyer nor a liable party should my opinion be wrong. Is this something worth revisiting?
> 
> Michael
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