[wsfii-discuss] batman license (Was: funding supernodes)

Fri Nov 2 15:05:07 UTC 2007

Axel Neumann wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Donnerstag 01 November 2007, Alexander Morlang wrote:
>   
>> Daniel Mullen schrieb:
>>     
>>> I stand corrected, the notice now reads:
>>>
>>> "This work shall be used for non-military and non-surveillance purposes
>>> only." 
>>>       
>
> This is a statement! 
>
> We are mainly focusing on non-commercial and free community networks 
> initiatives. We do not want to support any sorts of trendy security paranoia, 
> military usage, nor (as mentioned earlyer) these Big Brother eyes in any 
> public/private areas.
> Unfortunately, i am not aware of any license which really takes care of this 
> aspect or even allows legal enforcement.
>
>   
Unfortunately, I don't think that there is any Free License that does 
this, but I know that HESSLA 
(http://www.hacktivismo.com/about/hessla.php) does prevent people who 
abuse Human Rights from doing this.  I don't think this is really 
legally enforcable, but it may be more-so than "No Military".  However, 
I do know that the FSF doesn't consider any of these conditions free 
licenses.

On the other hand, if someone was using it for military or surveillance 
purposes, how much would you bet that they aren't sharing source code!

Joe