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19May/070

Puritan opensource license

(Disclaimer: this is not about bashing the GPL) ;-)

I have just found this post on the Google Code Hosting newsgroup. I actually had quite a good laugh reading it:

"I want to move the source code for my content management system to
Google Project Hosing. I am mostly fine with using the GPL, except
that I want to add in an extra couple of clauses to the license that
restricts use of the code to everything except pornography, gambling,
spam, and illegal or immoral activities.

Is it against the rules of Google Project Hosing to add an extra
clause onto the license that restricts the use of my software to more
wholesome uses?
"

The whole purpose of opensource is not to restrict the use of software for particular usages. I am also very interested to know what makes a given usage "immoral"...

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