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bioneuralnet | 2 years ago

Weird that the internal systems communicate via an Ingress, but I guess that's government contractors for you. Clearly they should have gone with Istio instead.

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bioneuralnet|2 years ago

While we're being absurd, are there any open source/copyleft licences that specifically forbid uses in war or weapons? I guess the gov will do whatever they want, but it would be interesting to see how it played out.

kube-system|2 years ago

There are, but neither the FSF nor OSI support them. Those provisions go against OSI's rule 6 and FSF's rule 0. Both believe free software and open source software licenses should allow the software to be used openly by anyone. On the other hand, breaking software licenses is fair game in war.

maxbond|2 years ago

I think that's pretty common, as far as bespoke licenses go.

I remember reading the license of a game engine that forbade using it for military training. I thought it was Quake but it doesn't seem to be.

zaphirplane|2 years ago

There is the story of the JSON licence excluding evil use and a company approached the author to get an unambiguous licence

omeid2|2 years ago

Unenforceable provisions are a mockery of man.

RF_Savage|2 years ago

Considering that GPL's provisions are already being ignored under "national security", I doubt one more clause would matter.