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[bug#51566] json licence
From: |
Attila Lendvai |
Subject: |
[bug#51566] json licence |
Date: |
Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:20:26 +0000 |
i have just realized this regarding the json licence:
"This license uses the Expat license as a base, but adds a clause mandating: “The Software shall be used for Good, not Evil.” This is a restriction on usage and thus conflicts with freedom 0. The restriction might be unenforcible, but we cannot presume that. Thus, the license is nonfree."
if json doesn't qualify for guix, then it means that stuff like the go ethereum client doesn't qualify.
context: i'm smartening up the go importer and go-ethereum's transitive closure of dozens of dependencies contains projects with json licence.
please advise,
- attila
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