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Garetoday at 11:03 AM1 replyview on HN

> The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.

https://www.json.org/license.html


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throwaway2037today at 11:39 AM

That caveat is modestly famous in open source license law circles. More than a few companies have debated whether or not to allow that package to be used. Fortunately, there are many open source alternatives that do not include that same restriction.

Tangentially related: The commercial license for Java used to say that it was not allowed to be used in an nuclear power plant. I'm not sure if that restriction still exists today.

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