Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on August 15, 2006 01:42 AM
This clause really raises several issues: 1. What is a human being? Where is the definition in here? By some peoples' definition, this would mean this could not be used by "Planned parenthood", or by scientists using tissue from aborted fetuses for stem cell research. Some would dispute this, but if you do not define, you leave yourself open to all kinds of issues. 2. What about using it to destroy buildings, bridges, power generation plants, food sources, etc.? 3. Another thing, does this software using any previously GPL'ed code? If so, they cannot do this for any of that code without permission.
All this to say, when developers start inserting politics or cute ideas into code or licenses, they need to make sure they have done all the legal defining and other stuff that actual brings substance to their idealism, otherwise it is just "fluff"!
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Real problems with this clause
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on August 15, 2006 01:42 AM1. What is a human being? Where is the definition in here? By some peoples' definition, this would mean this could not be used by "Planned parenthood", or by scientists using tissue from aborted fetuses for stem cell research. Some would dispute this, but if you do not define, you leave yourself open to all kinds of issues.
2. What about using it to destroy buildings, bridges, power generation plants, food sources, etc.?
3. Another thing, does this software using any previously GPL'ed code? If so, they cannot do this for any of that code without permission.
All this to say, when developers start inserting politics or cute ideas into code or licenses, they need to make sure they have done all the legal defining and other stuff that actual brings substance to their idealism, otherwise it is just "fluff"!
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