[olug] Political statements and other oddities in software licenses

[Adam Haeder]

GlovePIE is an application specifically designed to emulate Joystick and 
Keyboard input from a variety of devices. It's primary purpose is to allow 
for the use of a Wiimote on a PC.

Take a look at this software license: 
http://www.wiili.org/index.php/GlovePIE#Copyright_Notice

For those that don't want to follow the link, here are some highlights:
- You may not use this software directly or indirectly for any military purpose.
- You may not export this software to Israel, or use it in Israel
- Missionaries may not use this software

What do you all think of pushing your political (or whatever else) agenda 
in your software licenses? Is this the right thing to do? Is this an 
effective way to raise awareness about the issues you care about the most?

I can think of a one other example along these lines: the check in the nmap configure script that would prevent it from 
compiling on SCO, in response to their legal wrangling.

What do you think?

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Adam Haeder
Vice President of Information Technology
AIM Institute
adamh at aiminstitute.org
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