The JSON License famously includes a provision stating that “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil”.
This article explores why such provisions are not useful or meaningful in the greater software licensing conversation.
“Evil” is largely part of the software licensing conversation today because of a much earlier line drawn in the sand by open source software licensing proponents demanding that compliant licenses permit use for “Evil” (and consequently, placing a hard restriction on the individual freedom to refuse).
Because i didn’t completely get the blog article at first, I wanted to make this joke about reading comprehension (or familiarity with the words they use) needed to understand what Communist-adjacent people are saying:
not sure how well it holds up