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> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Open source project adds "no military use" clause to the GPL
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>> | That's intriguing enough, but the really interesting thing about GPU is
>> | the license its developers have given it. They call it a "no military
>> | use" modified version of the GNU General Public License (GPL).
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>> http://www.newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=06/08/14/1438204
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> Impossible to define 'military use'.
What about 'use by the military'? I guess the US military uses Apache, for
example. Maybe the clause could/should be augmented to describe what
reasoning manifested its inclusion. This could shed some light on when/where
borderline cases deem acceptable (e.g. information and in intelligence vs.
fatalities and violent interrogation).
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