__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Tuesday 15 August 2006 08:35 \__
> begin oe_protect.scr
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> 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
>
> Asimov rears his head... interesting. When talking about the laws of
> robotics much later in life, Asimov noted that what he'd really done was
> to enumerate the definition of a good tool of pretty much any kind, so
> perhaps these guys are right.
I have just found some more relevant information, Mark.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=33685
Gnutella licence shuts out military
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| The latest licence for the Gnutella client, GPU, has forbidden the use of
| the code by the military.
|
| GPU is a Gnutella client that links PCs together to create supercomputers,
| is now being released under a "no military use" modified version of theG
| NU General Public License (GPL).
|
| The lead developers Tiziano Mengotti and Rene Tegel have been reading
| their Isaac Asimov and have decided to give their code the equivalent of
| the three laws of robotics. They say that "the program and its
| derivative work will neither be modified nor executed to harm any human
| being nor through inaction permit any human being to be harmed."
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