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jjmarrtoday at 2:16 AM1 replyview on HN

There are plenty of licences to achieve this that'll make your code unusable.

CC-BY-NC allows you to ban commercial use. There is also the Hippocratic licence[2] which allows you to choose from a variety of "evil corporation" types, from fossil fuels, mineral exploration, the Taliban, companies that have more than 200% pay inequity, etc.

Pretty much all of these licences will make your project unusable and no longer free software, but hey, they exist!

[2] https://firstdonoharm.dev/build/


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TheCraiggerstoday at 2:51 AM

I think part of what they're trying to do is change the discussion or the "norm". For example, if every developer suddenly changed to that style of license, would you still deem it unusable?

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