Open Stack

On 02/04/14 15:26, Kevin Conway wrote:
> What licensing issues were brought up that prevent the use of JSLint or
> JSHint? Both are MIT licensed.
> 
> Granted, JSLint has an additional clause:
> 
>     The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.
> 
> 
> Maybe that's it? If so, Crockford has been known to make exceptions for
> organizations that wish to use his code for potentially evil
> purposes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C-JoyNuQJs&feature=player_detailpage#t=2480s.

Yes, that's exactly it. An exception is not enough -- that clause simply
makes that license incompatible with OpenStack's license. To use it, we
would need to change OpenStack's license too, and it quickly becomes
quite complex.

You have to remember that organizations like NSA use OpenStack, so we
can't possibly include that clause in its license ;)

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Radomir Dopieralski