On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 8:02 AM, Philip Balister
<address@hidden> wrote:
On 01/13/2011 02:00 AM, Jamie Morken wrote:
All "non-commercial use only" clauses most likely restrict most military
use, and these are quite common, and are far more restrictive than a
"non-military use only" clause. I do follow what you are saying though, but its a choice like "ethical investing", it makes economic sense to some people and seems foolish to some people.
Non-commercial use, academic only and other clauses restricting use of the hardware/software in derived works is not compatible with the OSI definition of an open source license. See:
http://www.opensource.org/docs/osd
Specifically, clause 6 states:
6. No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor
The license must not restrict anyone from making use of the program in a specific field of endeavor. For example, it may not restrict the program from being used in a business, or from being used for genetic research.
Philip