On 2/29/20 5:12 AM, Grahame Grieve wrote:
This precludes discrimination against illegal activities, either in
the source or user jurisdiction, right? Has this ever been tested in
court? (E.g. an open source library that was a key contributor to
empowering an illegal activity is targeted for allowing that use in
it’s license).
I liken it to the US Constitution's guarantee of free speech. You can
talk about things, even illegal things, even saying exactly how to do
them, as long as you have no concrete plans to do them (the latter being
"conspiracy"). Same thing for software. Software is speech as well as
being a tool.
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